title: Arterial hypertension and the work environment: some considerations affecting its compensability.
abstract: Hypertension can be considered work-related and, therefore, compensable when it[occurs] causes cardiac disease in occupational groups for whom cardiac ailments are legislated as being work-incurred and in workers exposed to certain nitrate explosives. In legal circles job related stresses are often invoked as a cause of hypertension and judicial precedent has accepted the medically unproven theory that hypertension develops after an exposure for long hours over a period of several years to the exasperations, frustrations, pressures, strains, and stresses of work. Apportionment of liability between industrial and non-industrial factors is a legal concept with negotiations often open to forensic debate. This could be minimized if epidemiologic information permitting the calculation of attributable risk were available. Also desirable is a better understanding of the possible contributions of common physical hazards e.g., noise and vibration, to sustained hypertension.
mesh_terms: D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006358:Hot Temperature / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008670:Metals / Q000506:poisoning; D009566:Nitrates / Q000506:poisoning; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000209:etiology*; D010551:Personality; D010575:Pesticides / Q000506:poisoning; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014481:United States; D014942:Workers' Compensation
chemical_list: D008670:Metals; D009566:Nitrates; D010575:Pesticides