Töres Theorell

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.

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.

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.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data was conducted to quantify the association between long working hours and alcohol use, showing that individuals whose working hours exceed standard recommendations are more likely to increase their alcohol use to levels that pose a health risk.

TL;DR: The authors combined individual-level data from 14 European cohort studies to examine the association between favorable work characteristics and leisure-time physical inactivity in a total of 170,162 employees, and suggest that unfavorable work characteristics may have a spillover effect on leisure- time physical activity.