Why the study?
Does high self-perceived psychological stress increase the risk of objective cardiovascular disease in men?
Population
5,606 men (mean age 48 years) from 27 workplaces in Scotland
Comparison
High self-perceived psychological stress vs Low self-perceived psychological stress
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
21 years
Authors
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High stress links only to subjective angina, not objective CHD events; leaves open causal risk versus reporting bias in observational data.
Does high self-perceived psychological stress increase the risk of objective cardiovascular disease in men?
The association between perceived psychological stress and heart disease is largely driven by subjective symptoms rather than objective indices of disease, suggesting reporting bias in observational studies.
John Macleod (2002) studied this question.
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