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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on October 12, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 162(11):1133-1134; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi331
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

Letter to the Editor

RE: "JOB STRESS AND BREAST CANCER RISK: THE NURSES' HEALTH STUDY"

John Macleod1 and George Davey Smith2

1 Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT Birmingham, United Kingdom
2 Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, BS8 2PR Bristol, United Kingdom

(e-mail: j.a.macleod@bham.ac.uk)

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The recent paper by Schernhammer et al. (1Go) in the American Journal of Epidemiology presents the latest evidence on the importance of job stress as a determinant of health in North American nurses. These authors' findings suggest that job stress doesn't cause breast cancer in this group. An earlier paper (2Go) suggested that it does not cause heart disease either. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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