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. 1992 Aug;82(8):1136–1139. doi: 10.2105/ajph.82.8.1136

Job strain and mortality in elderly men: social network, support, and influence as buffers.

A Falk 1, B S Hanson 1, S O Isacsson 1, P O Ostergren 1
PMCID: PMC1695761  PMID: 1636836

Abstract

The aim was to investigate whether job strain affects mortality in a representative population of elderly men, and whether social network and social support outside the workplace can buffer the negative health effects of job strain. A higher relative mortality risk (RR) was found among men exposed to job strain (RR = 1.7). The combination of exposure to job strain and seven different measures of weak social network and social support was associated with a further increased RR ranging from 2.1 to 4.6.

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