Job strain and the risk of inflammatory bowel diseases: individual-participant meta-analysis of 95,000 men and women.

Many clinicians, patients and patient advocacy groups believe stress to have a causal role in inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. However, this is not corroborated by clear epidemiological research evidence. We investigated the association between work-r...

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Main Authors: Katriina Heikkilä, Ida E H Madsen, Solja T Nyberg, Eleonor I Fransson, Kirsi Ahola, Lars Alfredsson, Jakob B Bjorner, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Nico Dragano, Jane E Ferrie, Anders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Aki Koskinen, Martin L Nielsen, Maria Nordin, Jan H Pejtersen, Jaana Pentti, Reiner Rugulies, Tuula Oksanen, Martin J Shipley, Sakari B Suominen, Töres Theorell, Ari Väänänen, Jussi Vahtera, Marianna Virtanen, Hugo Westerlund, Peter J M Westerholm, G David Batty, Archana Singh-Manoux, Mika Kivimäki, IPD-Work Consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3928274?pdf=render