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RE: "DOES JOB STRAIN INCREASE THE RISK FOR CORONARY HEART DISEASE OR DEATH IN MEN AND WOMEN? THE FRAMINGHAM OFFSPRING STUDY"
1 Department of Primary Care and General Practice, School of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
2 Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS2 8DZ, United Kingdom
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In a recent article, Eaker et al. (1) presented convincing evidence that the increased psychosocial "stress" presumed to be a consequence of a low level of job control is not associated with increased risk of heart disease in either men or women in the Framingham Offspring Study. In fact, they found a paradoxical association between a higher
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