Men, work-related stress may cause cancer
Dear men, beware! Prolonged exposure to work-related stress may
increase likelihood of cancer. The findings indicate that the link was observed
in men, who had been exposed to 15 to 30 years of work-related stress and in
some cases, more than 30 years. According to the study published in journal
of Preventive Medicine, prolonged exposure of men to work-related
stress has been linked to an increased likelihood of lung, colon, rectal and
stomach cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Researchers at INRS and Université de
Montréal in Canada conducted the study to assess the link between cancer and
work-related stress perceived by men throughout their working life. On average,
the study participants had held four jobs, with some holding up to a dozen or
more during their working lifetime. A link between work-related stress and
cancer was not found in participants who had held stressful jobs for less than
15 years. Significant links to five of the eleven cancers considered in the
study were revealed.
The most stressful jobs included firefighter, industrial engineer,
aerospace engineer, mechanic foreman, and vehicle and railway-equipment repair
worker and for the same individual, stress varied depending on the job held.
The study also shows that perceived stress is not limited to high work load and
time constraints. ‘One of the biggest flaws in previous cancer studies is that
none of them assessed work-related stress over a full working lifetime, making
it impossible to determine how the duration of exposure to work-related stress
affects cancer development,’ the authors explained. ‘Our study shows the
importance of measuring stress at different points in an individual’s working
life,’ the authors noted. Customer service, sales commissions,
responsibilities, the participant’s anxious temperament, job insecurity,
financial problems, challenging or dangerous work conditions, employee
supervision, interpersonal conflict and a difficult commute were all sources of
stress listed by the participants.
20.01.2017
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