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Heart problems in women linked to job insecurity.
2003 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Massachusetts, have found that a woman's heart attack risk may be influenced by concerns over potential loss of employment.
After following almost 37,000 nurses during a period of hospital consolidation and reorganization, the study showed that women who sensed that their job was insecure faced an almost two-fold increased risk of non-fatal heart attack. The findings were published in the Annals of Epidemiology.
"The evidence already exists to link unemployment with health problems such as immune system dysfunction, depression, suicide, and death," said lead researcher Sunmin Lee, ScD, of BWH. "Our study demonstrates that in addition to actually being laid off, job insecurity may also threaten one's health."
Job insecurity, defined as an employee's perception of potential threat to his or her employment, likely increased in the 1990s among nurses as a result of changes in the healthcare economy, characterized by a reduction in number of beds, decreased length of stay, and cuts in staffing, said Lee.
A July 2003 study by Rutgers University researchers found that nearly one in five American workers was laid off in the last 3 years. The report also indicated that concern about job security for those currently working was also at the highest level since the survey began 6 years ago.
The researchers first asked women, ages 46 to 71, about how they perceived their job security in 1992. These women were followed for 4 years, during which 154 ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Heart problems in women linked to job insecurity.