Why the study?
Do organisational job constraints increase the risk of incident hypertension in working men and women?
Population
609 working adults, including 426 men and 183 women from a French working population.
Comparison
Organisational job constraints vs Absence of or lower levels of job constraints
Design
Case-control
Authors
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Job strain may inform hypertension risk assessment in workers; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation before practice change.
Do organisational job constraints increase the risk of incident hypertension in working men and women?
Job constraints, including job strain and passive/active jobs, are associated with an increased risk of incident hypertension, with a more pronounced effect in women.
Radi et al. (2005) studied this question.
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