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Do you feel overwhelming stress at work? A new study published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry set out to research whether or not the intensity of a high-pressured work environment can lead to common mental health issues like anxiety and depression. This study suggests that it can.
The Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA) Stress & Anxiety Disorders Survey reports that most working Americans experience stress or anxiety both at work and at home, which can interfere with everyday functioning. They found that stress and anxiety most often impacts the employee’s workplace performance by 56%, relationship with coworkers and peers by 51%, quality of work by 50%, and relationships with superiors by 43%.
According to the World Health Organization’s Department of Health and Substance Dependence, “Stress at work can cause poor health and can increase rates of work-related injuries and accidents.
So, what exactly are the leading causes of these issues? Some potential causes of work-related stress are overwork, lack of clear instructions, unrealistic deadlines, lack of decision-making, job insecurity, isolated working conditions, surveillance, and inadequate child-care arrangements.”
The National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) estimates that 16.2 million people in the U.S. have experienced major depression at least once in the past year. Over 19% of the entire U.S population is estimated to have had an anxiety disorder in the past year.
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The research, led by associate professor Samuel Harvey from the Black Dog Institute in Sydney, Australia, examined the impact of job stain, defined as “a combination of low job control and high job demands”, on mental health and general employee wellness. People have also seen how work-related stress can have an impact on their family relationships. Sometimes work-related stress can cause a stress-related illness such as depression or heart problems.
Harvey and his colleagues analyzed data from 6,870 individuals enrolled in the UK’s National Child Development Study. They focused on whether people who experienced a high level of job strain at age 45 would go on to develop mental health issues by age 50. To determine job strain, the participants answered questions about their decision-make abilities at work and their ability to use their skills at their discretion to answer questions about workload, work place and other demands the job entailed.
Overall, by the age of 50, the study participants who had experienced higher job strain were up to 14% more likely to develop a common form of mental illness.
“The results indicate that if we were able to eliminate job strain situations in the workplace, up to 14% of cases of common mental illness could be avoided,” explains Harvey.
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Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries that carry the blood from your heart to other parts of your body. While your blood pressure levels normally rise and fall throughout the day, constant high levels, called hypertension, can damage your heart and cause a variety of health problems.
Take preventative measures by getting your blood pressure tested. But watch out! The American Heart Association has recently released information that says your measurements can come back completely wrong due to a few common mistakes. Here’s what you need to know.
Your blood pressure is recorded as two numbers – systolic (the one on top) measures how much pressure your blood is exerting against your artery walls when your heart beats and diastolic (the one at the bottom) measures how much pressure your blood is exerting against your artery walls while the heart is resting between beets.
The American Heart Association reports that your blood pressure is within a normal range when it is less than 120/80 mmHg. It is elevated when the systolic pressure is between 120 and 129 and the diastolic pressure is less than 80 mmHg.
Last November, the AHA changed its high blood pressure (Hypertension Stage 1) guidelines by 10 mmHg and established a new threshold for diagnosing high blood pressure at 130/80. That change was enough to classify “nearly half of all Americans as having high blood pressure.”
Systolic numbers 140 and above are considered Hypertension Stage 2 and Hypertensive crisis. See the chart here!
When you are at the doctor getting your blood pressure tested, it is common that you are sitting on the exam table, dangling your feet off of the edge and talking to the nurse or medical assistant. She or he may attach the blood pressure cuff onto the top of your shirt sleeve instead of your bare arm. But the AHA says this is all wrong and it could actually “push your reading high enough to quality for medication that might not be needed.”
According to the AHA’s website, common mistakes include:
Dr. Raymond Townsend, a nephrologist, teamed up with Dr. Michael Rakotz, the vice president of health outcomes for the American Medical Association to implement a “blood pressure check challenge” to nearly 160 medical students during the 2015 AMA annual meeting. Only one student performed all 11 measurement elements correctly.
Townsend reports, “Of all things that we do in clinical medicine, what is the single most important difference we can make to help someone live longer and live free of target organ damage? There’s only one answer – to measure and treat blood pressure correctly.”
Source: https://news.heart.org/are-blood-pressure-measurement-mistakes-making-you-chronically-ill/