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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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Psychosocial working conditions and depressive symptoms among Swedish employees.

TL;DR: The study supports the theory that decision authority, support and conflicts at work are predictive of depressive symptoms in the general Swedish working population.
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A 5-year follow-up study of aggression at work and psychological health

TL;DR: Ass associations were found between exposure to nasty teasing at baseline and psychological health problems at follow-up, even when controlled for organizational climate and psychologicalHealth effects.
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Occupational factors and 5-year weight change among men in a danish national cohort.

TL;DR: Age, baseline BMI, job insecurity, and psychological demands predicted changes in BMI, and job insecurity and high or low psychological demands increased the likelihood of weight gain among obese employees, whereas they increased the possibility of weight loss among employees with a low BMI.
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Do dimensions from the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire predict vitality and mental health over and above the job strain and effort—reward imbalance models?:

TL;DR: Emotional demands and low meaning of work predicted poor mental health and low vitality, and new psychosocial risk factors have the potential to add to the predictive power of the job strain and ERI models.
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Long working hours as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation : a multi-cohort study

TL;DR: Individuals who worked long hours were more likely to develop atrial fibrillation than those working standard hours and adjustment for potential confounding factors had little impact on this association.