New research highlights the impact of workplace stress on heart health and underscores the need for wellness interventions. Study: Work‐Related Stress Is Associated With Unfavorable Cardiovascular Health: The Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis . Image Credit: PeopleImages.
com - Yuri A/Shutterstock.com In a recent study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association , researchers investigated the association between work-related stress and cardiovascular health (CVH) in a multiethnic sample of adults free of cardiovascular disease (CVD) at baseline. Background In 2010, the American Heart Association introduced a new definition of CVH emphasizing primordial prevention of CVD risk factors through the assessment of seven health behaviors and factors known as Life's Simple 7: smoking, physical activity, diet, total cholesterol, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, and blood glucose.
In 2022, this was updated to Life's Essential 8 with the addition of sleep. High levels of psychosocial stress, particularly work-related stress, negatively impact CVH and increase the risk of adverse CVD outcomes. Further research is needed to explore the relationship between work-related stress and CVH across diverse populations.
About the study Data for this analysis were sourced from the Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Baseline data were collected from 6,814 participants, aged 45 to 84, who were free of clinical CVD or heart failure. The diverse cohort comprised.