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Breast Cancer
Job stress is not a risk factor
February 10th, 2005
Job stress is not a risk factor for breast cancer, according to an analysis of data from the Nurses' Health Study. "Workers tend to perceive certain features of their jobs as harmful to health and are alert to associations between job stress and health outcomes, but few observational studies have evaluated the role of job stress in carcinogenesis," said E.S. Schernhammer and colleagues, Channing Laboratories. They prospectively assessed "the association between job strain, measured by Karasek and Theorell's job content questionnaire in four categories (low strain, active, passive, and high strain), and breast cancer risk among participants in the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-02-10)
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