title: Need for recovery after work and the subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease in a working population.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A high need for recovery after work can be regarded as a short term adverse effect of working day stressors and the person's inability to cope and recover. Consequently, it might be an intermediate factor between job stressors and cardiovascular disease (CVD).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To investigate, in a longitudinal study, the relation between need for recovery and subsequent CVD.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from the Maastricht Cohort Study of 12 140 workers were used, with 42 incident self reported CVD cases during 32 months of follow up. Cox proportional hazards analysis was used to calculate age, gender, smoking status, and educational level adjusted relative risks.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The adjusted relative CVD risk for the second compared to the first tertile of the need for recovery score was 1.22 (95% CI: 0.49 to 3.04), and for the third compared to the first tertile was 3.16 (95% CI: 1.34 to 7.48). When need for recovery was entered as continuous score, an adjusted relative risk per SD increase of 1.54 (95% CI: 1.15 to 2.03) was found. Additional adjustment for several work related factors as job demands, did not notably change the observed relation between need for recovery and CVD. Moreover, the increased risk for subjects reporting high job demands (1.38 per SD increase; 95% CI: 1.02 to 3.92) decreased substantially after adjustment for need for recovery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results show that need for recovery is a strong predictor of subsequent cardiovascular disease and might be an intermediate factor between job stressors and cardiovascular disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Netherlands. lgpm.vanamelsvoort@epid.unimaas.nl
authors.forename: L G P M
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: van Amelsvoort
authors.forename: I J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Kant
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Bültmann
authors.forename: G M H
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Swaen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012307:Risk Factors