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Hugo Westerlund

Pofessor of Epidemiology, Stockholm University
Verified email at su.se
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[HTML][HTML] Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 …

…, T Theorell, J Vahtera, PJM Westerholm, H Westerlund… - The lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Long working hours might increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, but
prospective evidence is scarce, imprecise, and mostly limited to coronary heart disease. We …

Job strain as a risk factor for clinical depression: systematic review and meta-analysis with additional individual participant data

…, A Väänänen, PJM Westerholm, H Westerlund… - Psychological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundAdverse psychosocial working environments characterized by job strain (the
combination of high demands and low control at work) are associated with an increased risk …

Job strain as a risk factor for leisure-time physical inactivity: an individual-participant meta-analysis of up to 170,000 men and women: the IPD-Work Consortium

…, ST Nyberg, M Zins, H Westerlund… - American journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Unfavorable work characteristics, such as low job control and too high or too low job
demands, have been suggested to increase the likelihood of physical inactivity during …

[HTML][HTML] Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data

…, M Virtanen, PJM Westerholm, H Westerlund… - The lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Background Published work assessing psychosocial stress (job strain) as a risk factor for
coronary heart disease is inconsistent and subject to publication bias and reverse causation …

[HTML][HTML] Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120 813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA …

…, M Virtanen, P Westerholm, H Westerlund… - The Lancet Public …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Although overweight and obesity have been studied in relation to individual
cardiometabolic diseases, their association with risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity is …

Self-rated health before and after retirement in France (GAZEL): a cohort study

H Westerlund, M Kivimäki, A Singh-Manoux… - The Lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
Background Governments need to increase the proportion of the population in work in most
developed countries because of ageing populations. We investigated longitudinally how self …

[HTML][HTML] Effort–reward imbalance at work and incident coronary heart disease: a multicohort study of 90,164 individuals

…, J Vahtera, PJM Westerholm, H Westerlund… - …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background: Epidemiologic evidence for work stress as a risk factor for coronary heart
disease is mostly based on a single measure of stressful work known as job strain, a …

Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

…, J Vahtera, PJM Westerholm, H Westerlund… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
Objective To determine the association between self reported job insecurity and incident
coronary heart disease. Design A meta-analysis combining individual level data from a …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity and loss of disease-free years owing to major non-communicable diseases: a multicohort study

…, J Vahtera, PJM Westerholm, H Westerlund… - The lancet Public …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Obesity increases the risk of several chronic diseases, but the extent to which
the obesity-related loss of disease-free years varies by lifestyle category and across …

[HTML][HTML] Long working hours, socioeconomic status, and the risk of incident type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of published and unpublished data from 222 120 …

…, J Vahtera, PJM Westerholm, H Westerlund… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Working long hours might have adverse health effects, but whether this is true
for all socioeconomic status groups is unclear. In this meta-analysis stratified by …