Links between heart disease and psychosocial job characteristics were found to entirely explicable by teenage risk factors.
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T Hemmingsson et al. International Journal of Epidemiology (2006) Vol.35 p 616 to 622
“Is the association between low job control and coronary heart disease confounded by risk factors measured in childhood and adolescence among Swedish males 40–53 years of age?”
Risk factors for heart disease were more common among those teenagers who later took jobs with low control. There was no independent association with low job control in middle age.
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