Johannes Siegrist, Nico Dragano, Simone Weyers, Raimund Erbel ...

Background III: Reasonable evidence of an association
of stressful work (DC/ERI) with CHD/CVD mortality:
several prospective studies (see figure)
Cardiovascular mortality in industrial workers (25,6 ys.) ys.)
2,5
2
1,5
1
0,5
*
1 2 3 1 2 3
High demand /
low control
Effort-Reward
Imbalance
Source: M. Kivimäki et al. (2002), BMJ, 325: 857
*
Tertiles
1 = low;
2 = intermediate;
3 = high
adj. for age, sex,
occupational group,
smoking, physical
activity, SBP,
total chol., BMI
* p < .05