Demanding, low-control jobs linked to type 2 diabetes

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Demanding, low-control jobs linked to type 2 diabetes

By Krystnell Storr NEW YORK (Reuters Health) â€" Even without classic risk factors for type 2 diabetes, people with high-stress, low-control jobs were over 60 percent more likely to develop the disease than unstressed workers in a new German study. “What we first suspected was that job strain might be related to lifestyle variables - that people who are under high job strain would smoke or maybe eat unhealthy food more, but this was not the case,” said lead study author Karl-Heinz Ladwig, of the Technical University in Munich. Past research dating back decades has established that jobs with a combination of high demands and low control over how the work is done offer a formula for high worker stress. A few studies in more recent years have connected this form of worker stress to diabetes, although sometimes the effect was seen only in women (see Reuters Health article of January 4, 2010, here: http://reut.rs/1ohWKsl) or was largely linked to coping behaviors.

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