Job strain in relation to body mass index: pooled analysis of 160 000 adults from 13 cohort studies.
Solja T. Nyberg
(1)
,
Katriina Heikkilä
(1)
,
Eleonor I. Fransson
(2, 3)
,
Lars Alfredsson
(2)
,
Dirk de Bacquer
(4)
,
Jakob B. Bjorner
(5)
,
Sébastien Bonenfant
(6)
,
Marianne Borritz
(7)
,
Hermann Burr
(8)
,
Annalisa Casini
(9)
,
Els Clays
(4)
,
Nico Dragano
(10)
,
Raimound Erbel
(11)
,
Goedele A. Geuskens
(12)
,
Marcel Goldberg
(6)
,
Wendela E. Hooftman
(12)
,
Irene L. Houtman
(12)
,
Karl-Heinz Jöckel
(10)
,
France Kittel
(9)
,
Anders Knutsson
(13)
,
Markku Koskenvuo
(14)
,
Constanze Leineweber
(15)
,
Thorsten Lunau
(10)
,
Idea Eh Madsen
(5)
,
Linda L. Magnusson Hanson
(15)
,
Michael G. Marmot
(16)
,
Martin L. Nielsen
(17)
,
Maria Nordin
(18)
,
Tuula Oksanen
(1, 19)
,
Jaana Pentti
(1)
,
Reiner Rugulies
(5, 20)
,
Johannes Siegrist
(21)
,
Sakari Suominen
(22, 23)
,
Jussi Vahtera
(1, 22, 24)
,
Mariana Virtanen
(1)
,
Peter Westerholm
(25)
,
Hugo Westerlund
(15, 16, 26)
,
Marie Zins
(6)
,
Jane E. Ferrie
(16, 27)
,
Töres Theorell
(15)
,
Andrew Steptoe
(16)
,
Mark Hamer
(16)
,
Archana Singh-Manoux
(6, 16)
,
G. David Batty
(28, 16)
,
Mika Kivimäki
(1, 16, 29)
1
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
2 Institute of Environmental Medicine
3 Health Sciences School
4 Department of Public Health
5 National Research Centre for the Working Environment
6 CESP - Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations
7 Department of Occupational Medicine
8 Centre for Maritime Health and Safety
9 School of Public Health
10 Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology
11 Department of Cardiology
12 TNO - The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
13 Department of Health Sciences
14 Department of Public Health
15 Stress Research Institute
16 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
17 Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
18 Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
19 Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
20 Department of Public Health [Copenhagen]
21 Department of Medical Sociology
22 Department of Public Health
23 Folkhälsan Research Center
24 TYKS - Turku University Hospital
25 Occupational and Environmental Medicine
26 Department of Psychiatry
27 School of Social and Community Medicine [Bristol]
28 Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology
29 Department of Behavioral Sciences
2 Institute of Environmental Medicine
3 Health Sciences School
4 Department of Public Health
5 National Research Centre for the Working Environment
6 CESP - Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations
7 Department of Occupational Medicine
8 Centre for Maritime Health and Safety
9 School of Public Health
10 Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology
11 Department of Cardiology
12 TNO - The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
13 Department of Health Sciences
14 Department of Public Health
15 Stress Research Institute
16 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
17 Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
18 Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
19 Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
20 Department of Public Health [Copenhagen]
21 Department of Medical Sociology
22 Department of Public Health
23 Folkhälsan Research Center
24 TYKS - Turku University Hospital
25 Occupational and Environmental Medicine
26 Department of Psychiatry
27 School of Social and Community Medicine [Bristol]
28 Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology
29 Department of Behavioral Sciences
Solja T. Nyberg
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Marcel Goldberg
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Marie Zins
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Mark Hamer
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Archana Singh-Manoux
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Mika Kivimäki
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Evidence of an association between job strain and obesity is inconsistent, mostly limited to small-scale studies, and does not distinguish between categories of underweight or obesity subclasses. OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between job strain and body mass index (BMI) in a large adult population. METHODS: We performed a pooled cross-sectional analysis based on individual-level data from 13 European studies resulting in a total of 161 746 participants (49% men, mean age, 43.7 years). Longitudinal analysis with a median follow-up of 4 years was possible for four cohort studies (n = 42 222). RESULTS: A total of 86 429 participants were of normal weight (BMI 18.5-24.9 kg m(-2) ), 2149 were underweight (BMI < 18.5 kg m(-2) ), 56 572 overweight (BMI 25.0-29.9 kg m(-2) ) and 13 523 class I (BMI 30-34.9 kg m(-2) ) and 3073 classes II/III (BMI ≥ 35 kg m(-2) ) obese. In addition, 27 010 (17%) participants reported job strain. In cross-sectional analyses, we found increased odds of job strain amongst underweight [odds ratio 1.12, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.00-1.25], obese class I (odds ratio 1.07, 95% CI 1.02-1.12) and obese classes II/III participants (odds ratio 1.14, 95% CI 1.01-1.28) as compared with participants of normal weight. In longitudinal analysis, both weight gain and weight loss were related to the onset of job strain during follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: In an analysis of European data, we found both weight gain and weight loss to be associated with the onset of job strain, consistent with a 'U'-shaped cross-sectional association between job strain and BMI. These associations were relatively modest; therefore, it is unlikely that intervention to reduce job strain would be effective in combating obesity at a population level.
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