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The relationship between job strain and blood pressure at work, at home, and during sleep. 1992

L F Van Egeren
Department of Psychiatry, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824.

Eleven normotensive workers in "high strain" jobs, defined by the combination of high psychological work load and low worker control, were compared with 26 normotensive workers in "low strain" jobs on ambulatory blood pressure (BP) at work, at home in the evening, and during sleep. High strain workers' systolic BP was higher at work and at home in the evening, after adjusting for prework casual BP, body mass index, gender. Type A behavior, and caffeine consumption. Under certain conditions, systolic BP during sleep and diastolic BP at work were higher as well. Men and women, and Type A and Type B workers, were indistinguishable in job strain effects on BP. Type A workers tended to hold "active" (high demand, high control) jobs, and Type B workers "passive" jobs. More research is needed to distinguish more clearly job strain as 'cause' of observed BP effects from job strain as mere 'correlate.'

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006973 Hypertension Persistently high systemic arterial BLOOD PRESSURE. Based on multiple readings (BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION), hypertension is currently defined as when SYSTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently greater than 140 mm Hg or when DIASTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently 90 mm Hg or more. Blood Pressure, High,Blood Pressures, High,High Blood Pressure,High Blood Pressures
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D012890 Sleep A readily reversible suspension of sensorimotor interaction with the environment, usually associated with recumbency and immobility. Sleep Habits,Sleeping Habit,Sleeping Habits,Habit, Sleep,Habit, Sleeping,Habits, Sleep,Habits, Sleeping,Sleep Habit
D013315 Stress, Psychological Stress wherein emotional factors predominate. Cumulative Stress, Psychological,Emotional Stress,Individual Stressors,Life Stress,Psychological Cumulative Stress,Psychological Stress Experience,Psychological Stress Overload,Psychologically Stressful Conditions,Stress Experience, Psychological,Stress Measurement, Psychological,Stress Overload, Psychological,Stress Processes, Psychological,Stress, Emotional,Stressful Conditions, Psychological,Psychological Stress,Stress, Psychologic,Stressor, Psychological,Condition, Psychological Stressful,Condition, Psychologically Stressful,Conditions, Psychologically Stressful,Cumulative Stresses, Psychological,Experience, Psychological Stress,Individual Stressor,Life Stresses,Measurement, Psychological Stress,Overload, Psychological Stress,Psychologic Stress,Psychological Cumulative Stresses,Psychological Stress Experiences,Psychological Stress Measurement,Psychological Stress Measurements,Psychological Stress Overloads,Psychological Stress Processe,Psychological Stress Processes,Psychological Stresses,Psychological Stressful Condition,Psychological Stressful Conditions,Psychological Stressor,Psychological Stressors,Psychologically Stressful Condition,Stress Experiences, Psychological,Stress Processe, Psychological,Stress, Life,Stress, Psychological Cumulative,Stressful Condition, Psychological,Stressful Condition, Psychologically,Stressor, Individual
D014434 Type A Personality Established behavior pattern characterized by excessive drive and ambition, impatience, competitiveness, sense of time urgency, and poorly contained aggression. Coronary-Prone Personality,Personality Type A,Coronary Prone Personality,Coronary-Prone Personalities,Personalities, Coronary-Prone,Personalities, Type A,Personality, Coronary-Prone,Personality, Type A,Type A Personalities,Type A, Personality
D014937 Work Productive or purposeful activities.

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