How Your Job Could Hurt Your Heart
Those of us with stressful jobs had a 23 percent higher risk of getting a heart attack than those without that added stress. What makes a job stressful? A stressful job has to have high demands and little control, sort of like college. In their study, only 5 percent, of the participants had stressful jobs. On a global scale, there are probably much higher percentages for having a "stressful" job. Before this article came out however, this subject had mixed results with previous studies. In the article they state why the data collection method this time will yield a much high correlation than previous accounts. They were able to synthesize a monumental amount of data by combining previously published and unpublished studies. Even so, will working off of these past studies reveal anything about our current understanding? These results can't prove cause and effect because the original work they drew upon only observed participating people, not a random sample where each individual was assigned randomly to high-stress and low-stress jobs. The results and numbers in this article are misleading though. By ending an article with such inconclusiveness and by pointing out their own flaws, these results and tests mean almost nothing. Halfway research is worthless, it is commonly known though that stress has a correlation with heart attacks, but that's why we collect data, so we can have an exact, trustworthy answer.
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ReplyDeleteStress definitely seems to be a health hazard for today's day fast paced business world. It seems as though there hasn't been any definitive proof however that stress is a cause of heart attacks based off this post. A simple random sample however does not mean that each individual is assigned stress levels randomly. That would mean every time there would be a flat distribution of stress levels among people and no trends at all if it were truly random. A random sample is a way to get as many random people as possible to participate so that you can represent a larger population, and based on that see what the trends for their stress level are. It would be interesting to see a study on stress in poorer countries where the stress of just staying alive and being able to eat is a big factor.
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