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Dean Baker
Researcher at University of California, Irvine
Publications - 63
Citations - 8474
Dean Baker is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Job strain & Population. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 63 publications receiving 8075 citations. Previous affiliations of Dean Baker include Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai & Yale University.
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Job decision latitude, job demands, and cardiovascular disease : a prospective study of Swedish men
TL;DR: The association between specific job characteristics and subsequent cardiovascular disease was tested using a large random sample of the male working Swedish population and the prospective development of coronary heart disease symptoms and signs was analyzed using a multivariate logistic regression technique.
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The role of cockroach allergy and exposure to cockroach allergen in causing morbidity among inner-city children with asthma
David L. Rosenstreich,Peyton A. Eggleston,Meyer Kattan,Dean Baker,Raymond G. Slavin,Peter J. Gergen,Herman Mitchell,Kathleen Mcniff-Mortimer,Henry Lynn,Dennis R. Ownby,Floyd J. Malveaux +10 more
TL;DR: The combination of cockroach allergy and exposure to high levels of this allergen may help explain the frequency of asthma-related health problems in inner-city children.
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Job Strain and Cardiovascular Disease
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The role of cockroach allergy and exposure to cockroach allergen in causing morbidity among innercity children with asthma
David L. Rosenstreich,Peyton A. Eggleston,Meyer Kattan,Dean Baker,Raymond G. Slavin,Peter J. Gergen,Herman Mitchell,Kathleen Mcniff-Mortimer,Henry Lynn,Dennis Randall Ownby,Floyd J. Malveaux +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that children who were both allergic to cockroach and exposed to high levels of this allergen had 0.37 hospitalization a year, as compared with 0.11 for the other children (P=0.43) and 2.56 unscheduled medical visits for asthma per year.
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Is job strain a major source of cardiovascular disease risk
TL;DR: Men showed strong, consistent evidence of an association between exposure to job strain and CVD, and other elements of causal inference corroborated that job strain is a major CVD risk factor.