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Hermann Burr

Researcher at Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Publications -  150
Citations -  9429

Hermann Burr is an academic researcher from Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cohort study & Psychosocial. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 137 publications receiving 8004 citations. Previous affiliations of Hermann Burr include Aarhus University Hospital & National Institute of Occupational Health.

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Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that prevention of workplace stress might decrease disease incidence; however, this strategy would have a much smaller effect than would tackling of standard risk factors, such as smoking.
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Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke : a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals

Mika Kivimäki, +55 more
- 31 Oct 2015 - 
TL;DR: Employees who work long hours have a higher risk of stroke than those working standard hours; the association with coronary heart disease is weaker; these findings suggest that more attention should be paid to the management of vascular risk factors in individuals whoWork long hours.
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The health paradox of occupational and leisure-time physical activity

TL;DR: Findings indicate opposing effects of occupational and leisure-time physical activity on global health, in a dose–response manner, occupational physical activity increased the risk for LTSA, while leisure- time physical activity decreased the risk of LTSA.
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Job strain as a risk factor for clinical depression: systematic review and meta-analysis with additional individual participant data

TL;DR: Job strain may precipitate clinical depression among employees and future intervention studies should test whether job strain is a modifiable risk factor for depression.
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Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

Marianna Virtanen, +56 more
- 08 Aug 2013 - 
TL;DR: The modest association between perceived job insecurity and incident coronary heart disease is partly attributable to poorer socioeconomic circumstances and less favourable risk factor profiles among people with job insecurity.