Abstract

VIECO GOMEZ, Germán; CARABALLO GRACIA, Domingo  and  ABELLO LLANOS, Raimundo. Psychosocial occupational risk factors, stress and coronary artery disease. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2018, vol.35, n.1, pp.49-59. ISSN 0123-417X.

A review of articles derived from analytic investigations located through search engines and electronic databases was made (ISI Web of Knowledge, APA Articles and Science Direct) in order to identify and analyze up-to-date information on working conditions as psychosocial risk factors of occupational origin and effects on cardiovascular health, specifically the so-called coronary heart disease. Reviewed articles in full text from longitudinal studies with follow-up of cohorts exposed to the risk factors, cases and controls and cross sectional studies, are privileged items of importance in terms of sample size, the methods used, the representativeness of the samples, the forcefulness in their results and published in journals of high international impact. It reports on the argument between the two research groups of greatest relevance in the world: The IPD (Europe and Asia) Consortium and Unhealthy Work (USA). The first group reported findings of association between the risk factors of psychosocial and coronary heart disease with a ratio of average size (OD = 1. 8) gap, and the UW reports fiindings with values around 2.3 as strength of association (OD = 2 3). The debate remains open, the research and the discussion move forward every day.

Keywords : Psychosocial risks; working conditions; coronary artery disease; meta-analysis; systematic reviews..

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