New study findings confirm what some office managers, senior management officials and other white-collar workers have suspected for years: working in highly stressful jobs can increase your blood pressure.
"We found that cumulative exposure to job strain resulted in significant increases in systolic blood pressure among male white-collar workers, especially those with low levels of social support at work," Dr. Chantal Guimont, of Laval University, in Quebec City, Quebec, and her colleagues write in this month's American Journal of Public Health.
Some of the studies assessing the impact of job strain on blood pressure have yielded conflicting results, so Guimont and her colleagues looked at the issue again in a study of 6,719 men and women white-collar workers, aged 18 to 65 years, in Quebec City.
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