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July 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda THURSDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) — Women with demanding jobs
that provide few opportunities to make decisions or use their creativity
are at increased risk for heart attacks, according to new research.
For the study, researchers analyzed data provided by 22,000 women over
10 years regarding their job strain, job insecurity and other health and
lifestyle information. Most participants were white health professionals.
The women, whose average age was 57, answered questions about the pace of
their workday, how hard they worked and to what extent they had to juggle
competing demands.
After taking into account factors such as age, race and income, the
investigators found that women with high job strain were 38 percent more
likely to have heart-related events, such as stroke, heart surgery to
clear blockages, or death. Heart attack risk was 70 percent higher,
according to the report published July 18 in PLoS ONE.
Women who had highly stressful jobs but who also had a lot of control
over their work — such as physicians, executives, nurses, teachers and
managers — also had higher risk of cardiovascular events, according to
the researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
“Previous long-term studies of job strain, defined by the combination
of psychological demand and job control, and heart disease risk have
mainly focused on men and a more restricted set of cardiovascular
conditions,” said Dr. Michelle Albert, a cardiologist and researcher at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical
School in Boston.
“Our study indicates that high job strain can negatively affect your
health. There are immediate and definite long-term, clinically documented
cardiovascular health effects of job strain in women, and it is important
for women and their health care providers to pay attention to the stresses
of their job,” Albert explained in a news release from Partners
HealthCare.
While the researchers found an association between stress at work and
heart attacks, they did not prove that there is a direct cause-and-effect
relationship between job strain and heart attacks or other cardiovascular
problems.
More information
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has more about heart disease in women.
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