Work Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases: From Evidences of Causal Associations to Workplace Interventions

Dear Colleagues,

It is notable that, during the past decades, the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease have been observed to be rising among working age population in some developed countries and many developing countries. Though multiple factors are suggested to contribute to the trends, workplace exposures have received increasing attention, particularly stressful experiences due to low autonomy, low reward, discrimination, violence, night shift, occupational physical activity, long working hours, high job insecurity, etc. Beyond these meso-level risk factors, macro-level factors related to labor market policies and global economic recession could also heavily affect workers’ cardiovascular health. Specially, life course approaches for cumulative adversities, interactions between workplace exposures and non-work-related factors (for instance, private life disadvantages and environmental stressors) have revealed new insights of total worker health. When taking a close look at the micro-level, research on psycho-socio-physiological pathways linking the adverse exposures to cardiovascular disease has strengthened our understanding of disease etiology, based on traditional biomarkers (allostatic load, heart rate variability, cortisol), as well as several exciting new spots such as immunity, telomere length, and epigenetics.

In this special issue, we provide an open platform to colleagues to address new findings and advances in cardiovascular disease among working age population. We invite you to submit high-quality original research articles or reviews that extend the current state of knowledge, and all research types are welcome, including epidemiological studies among initially healthy subjects for disease onset or among ill workers for disease prognosis/recurrence, laboratory-based studies focusing on mechanisms and biomarkers in vivo or in vitro, and interventional studies at organizational and/or individual levels targeting cardiovascular outcomes in the workplace.

Prof. Dr. Jian Li
Prof. Dr. Marco Mario Ferrario
Prof. Dr. Akinori Nakata
Guest Editors

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• cardiovascular disease
• hypertension
• ischemic heart disease
• stroke
• metabolic disorders
• psychosocial work environment
• labor market
• economic recession
• work stress
• occupational physical activity
• working hours
• shift work
• occupational and environmental exposures
• sleep
• life course approaches
• epidemiological studies
• psycho-socio-physiological mechanisms
• biomarkers
• interventions