Job strain and the risk of inflammatory bowel diseases: individual-participant meta-analysis of 95,000 men and women.

<h4>Background and aims</h4>Many clinicians, patients and patient advocacy groups believe stress to have a causal role in inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. However, this is not corroborated by clear epidemiological research evidence. We inv...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Katriina Heikkilä, Ida E H Madsen, Solja T Nyberg, Eleonor I Fransson, Kirsi Ahola, Lars Alfredsson, Jakob B Bjorner, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Nico Dragano, Jane E Ferrie, Anders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Aki Koskinen, Martin L Nielsen, Maria Nordin, Jan H Pejtersen, Jaana Pentti, Reiner Rugulies, Tuula Oksanen, Martin J Shipley, Sakari B Suominen, Töres Theorell, Ari Väänänen, Jussi Vahtera, Marianna Virtanen, Hugo Westerlund, Peter J M Westerholm, G David Batty, Archana Singh-Manoux, Mika Kivimäki, IPD-Work Consortium
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088711