New life sciences study findings have been reported by A. Vaananen and colleagues
2009 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- "The aim of this prospective study was to examine the link between individual and ecological workplace social capital and the co-occurrence of adverse lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, heavy drinking, physical inactivity and overweight. Data on 25 897 female and 5476 male public sector employees were analysed," scientists writing in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine report. "Questionnaire surveys conducted in 2000-2002 (baseline) and 2004-2005 (follow-up) were used to assess workplace social capital, lifestyle risk factors and other characteristics. Multilevel multinomial logistic regression analysis was used to examine associations between individual and ecological social capital and the co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors. In the cross-sectional analysis adjusted for age, sex, marital status and employer, low social capital at work at both the individual and ecological level was associated with at least a 1.3 times higher odds of having more than two lifestyle risk factors versus having no risk factors. Similar associations were found in the prospective setting. However, additional adjustment for the co-occurrence of risk factors and socioeconomic status at baseline attenuated the result to non-significant," wrote A. Vaananen and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "Social capital at work seems to be associated with a lowered risk of co-occurrence of multiple lifestyle risk factors but does not clearly predict the future risk of this co-occurrence.." Vaananen and colleagues published their study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Workplace social capital and co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors: the Finnish Public Sector Study. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2009;66(7):432-437). Additional information can be obtained by contacting A. Vaananen, Finnish Institute Occupational Health, Center Expertise Work Organization, Topeliuksenkatu 41 A A, FI-00250 Helsinki, Finland. The publisher of the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine can be contacted at: B M J Publishing Group, British Med Association House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR, England. Keywords: Finland, Helsinki, Life Sciences, Obesity, Bariatrics, Environmental Medicine. This article was prepared by Disease Prevention Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2009, Disease Prevention Week via NewsRx.com.
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