Background Published work assessing psychosocial stress (job strain) as a risk factor for
coronary heart disease is inconsistent and subject to publication bias and reverse causation …

Background Long working hours might increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, but
prospective evidence is scarce, imprecise, and mostly limited to coronary heart disease. We …

Background Although overweight and obesity have been studied in relation to individual
cardiometabolic diseases, their association with risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity is poorly …

BackgroundAdverse psychosocial working environments characterized by job strain (the
combination of high demands and low control at work) are associated with an increased risk of …

The perceived stress scale ( PSS ) has been translated to several languages and validated
in many cultures. The longer 14‐item version ( PSS ‐14), has been translated to Swedish …

Background Exposure to ambient air pollution is suspected to cause cognitive effects, but a
prospective cohort is needed to study exposure to air pollution at the home address and the …

Circulating tumor cells (CTC) are shed in peripheral blood at advanced metastatic stages of
solid cancers. Surface-marker-based detection of CTC predicts recurrence and survival in …

Background Obesity increases the risk of several chronic diseases, but the extent to which
the obesity-related loss of disease-free years varies by lifestyle category and across …

Introduction Higher midlife body mass index (BMI) is suggested to increase the risk of dementia,
but weight loss during the preclinical dementia phase may mask such effects. Methods …

Unfavorable work characteristics, such as low job control and too high or too low job demands,
have been suggested to increase the likelihood of physical inactivity during leisure time, …