Job Strain, Workplace Discrimination, and Hypertension among Older Workers: The Health and Retirement Study.

PubWeight™: 0.86‹?›

🔗 View Article (PMID 22096475)

Published in Race Soc Probl on March 01, 2011

Authors

Briana Mezuk1, Kiarri N Kershaw, Darrell Hudson, Kyuang Ah Lim, Scott Ratliff

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, P. O. Box 980212, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.

Articles cited by this

Seventh report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. Hypertension (2003) 63.78

Trends in prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in the United States, 1988-2000. JAMA (2003) 14.77

US trends in prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, 1988-2008. JAMA (2010) 13.94

Racial Differences in Physical and Mental Health: Socio-economic Status, Stress and Discrimination. J Health Psychol (1997) 12.95

The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ): an instrument for internationally comparative assessments of psychosocial job characteristics. J Occup Health Psychol (1998) 11.87

Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions. J Occup Health Psychol (1996) 9.69

Psychosocial work environment and mental health--a meta-analytic review. Scand J Work Environ Health (2006) 5.01

The evolving concept of the healthy worker survivor effect. Epidemiology (1994) 3.88

Current issues relating to psychosocial job strain and cardiovascular disease research. J Occup Health Psychol (1996) 2.70

Inequalities in self-rated health: explanations from different stages of life. Lancet (1998) 2.68

Racism, discrimination and hypertension: evidence and needed research. Ethn Dis (2001) 2.64

Bias in occupational epidemiology studies. Occup Environ Med (2006) 2.39

Demographic and economic correlates of health in old age. Demography (1997) 2.14

Physiological responses to racism and discrimination: an assessment of the evidence. Am J Public Health (2003) 1.99

The relation of psychosocial dimensions of work with coronary heart disease risk factors: a meta-analysis of five United States data bases. Am J Epidemiol (1989) 1.97

Changes in perceived job strain and the risk of major depression: results from a population-based longitudinal study. Am J Epidemiol (2009) 1.79

Self-reported stressors and hypertension: evidence of an inverse association. Am J Epidemiol (1988) 1.76

Perceived stress following race-based discrimination at work is associated with hypertension in African-Americans. The metro Atlanta heart disease study, 1999-2001. Soc Sci Med (2004) 1.59

Job strain and prevalence of hypertension in a biracial population of urban bus drivers. Am J Public Health (1992) 1.59

Pathways to retirement: patterns of labor force participation and labor market exit among the pre-retirement population by race, Hispanic origin, and sex. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci (2000) 1.35

Understanding contributors to racial disparities in blood pressure control. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2010) 1.28

The relationship between work stress and mental disorders in men and women: findings from a population-based study. J Epidemiol Community Health (2008) 1.15

The role of bridge jobs in the retirement transition: gender, race, and ethnicity. Gerontologist (1996) 1.03

Senior workers in the Dutch construction industry: a search for age-related work and health issues. Exp Aging Res (1999) 1.01

The retiree identity: gender and race differences. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci (1999) 1.01

Occupational stressors and hypertension: a multi-method study using observer-based job analysis and self-reports in urban transit operators. Soc Sci Med (2004) 0.99

Job strain in men, but not in women, predicts a significant rise in blood pressure after 6.5 years of follow-up. J Hypertens (2007) 0.96

Job strain and hypertension in women: Estudo Pro-Saúde (Pro-Health Study). Rev Saude Publica (2009) 0.93

Age Differences in the Demand-Control Model of Work Stress: An Examination of Data From 15 European Countries. J Appl Gerontol (2010) 0.85

Coping strategies and diastolic blood pressure. Psychol Rep (1989) 0.84

Work experience and drinking behavior: alienation, occupational status, workplace drinking subculture and problem drinking. Public Health (2001) 0.84

Job strain and blood pressure in African Americans: the Pitt County Study. Am J Public Health (1997) 0.81

Reconceptualizing retirement for black Americans. Gerontologist (1987) 0.79

Beyond work and family: a measure of work/nonwork interference and enhancement. J Occup Health Psychol (2009) 0.79

The Social Security system: benefit differences among racial/ethnic groups. Stat Bull Metrop Insur Co (2000) 0.77

Articles by these authors

Reconsidering the role of social disadvantage in physical and mental health: stressful life events, health behaviors, race, and depression. Am J Epidemiol (2010) 1.77

"White Box" Epidemiology and the Social Neuroscience of Health Behaviors: The Environmental Affordances Model. Soc Ment Health (2013) 1.47

Prioritization of evidence-based preventive health services during periodic health examinations. Am J Prev Med (2012) 1.14

Comparative performance of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 in pregnant and postpartum women seeking psychiatric services. Psychiatry Res (2010) 1.05

Factors influencing cost-related nonadherence to medication in older adults: a conceptually based approach. Value Health (2010) 0.97

Cardiovascular disease among Black Americans: comparisons between the U.S. Virgin Islands and the 50 U.S. states. Public Health Rep (2013) 0.89

Job strain, depressive symptoms, and drinking behavior among older adults: results from the health and retirement study. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci (2011) 0.88

Race/ethnicity, residential segregation, and exposure to ambient air pollution: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Am J Public Health (2014) 0.88

Racial and ethnic differences in the association between obesity and depression in women. J Womens Health (Larchmt) (2013) 0.86

Employment status of patients in the VA health system: implications for mental health services. Psychiatr Serv (2011) 0.85

Prevalence and correlates of specialty substance use disorder treatment for Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System patients with high alcohol consumption. Drug Alcohol Depend (2010) 0.84

Perceived Discrimination and Incident Cardiovascular Events: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Am J Epidemiol (2015) 0.83

The Role of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors in Explaining the Association Between Acculturation and Obesity Among Mexican-American Adults. Am J Health Promot (2014) 0.81

Social relationships and longitudinal changes in body mass index and waist circumference: the coronary artery risk development in young adults study. Am J Epidemiol (2014) 0.78

Subsidized housing not subsidized health: health status and fatigue among elders in public housing and other community settings. Ethn Dis (2011) 0.77

Coming unmoored: disproportionate increases in obesity prevalence among young, disadvantaged white women. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2014) 0.77

Air Pollution, Cardiovascular Outcomes, and Social Disadvantage: The Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Epidemiology (2016) 0.75

Unequal Exposure or Unequal Vulnerability? Contributions of Neighborhood Conditions and Cardiovascular Risk Factors to Socioeconomic Inequality in Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Am J Epidemiol (2017) 0.75

Experiences of Discrimination and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Am J Epidemiol (2017) 0.75