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 …

BackgroundAdverse psychosocial working environments characterized by job strain (the
combination of high demands and low control at work) are associated with an increased risk …

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 …

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 …

Objective: To explore the underlying mechanisms between organisational downsizing and
deterioration of health of employees. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Data were …

Background Reduction of personnel by businesses and other organisations (organisational
downsizing) is common in Europe, but little is known about its effects on the health of …

Objective To examine whether downsizing, the reduction of personnel in organisations, is a
predictor of increased sickness absence and mortality among employees. Design …

Background Although overweight and obesity have been studied in relation to individual
cardiometabolic diseases, their association with risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity is …

Background Socioeconomic disadvantage is a risk factor for many diseases. We
characterised cascades of these conditions by using a data-driven approach to examine the …

Study objective: To examine the relation between work stress, as indicated by the job strain
model, and the effort-reward imbalance model, and smoking. Setting: Ten municipalities and …