Spanish researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Virgen de la Victoria Hospital in Malaga have studied how stress at work affects cardiovascular health . The results, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health , associate this situation with alterations in the metabolism of fatty acids in the body .
Specifically, from a sample of more than 90,000 employees who attended a medical examination, the clinical psychologist Carlos Catalina and his colleagues identified that "the subjects who declared having experienced difficulties in coping with their work during the last twelve months (8.7% of the sample) had a higher risk of suffering from dyslipidemia ”, according to Catalina's statements made to the SINC agency. Dyslipidemia or dyslipidemia are disorders of lipoprotein metabolism, which can be manifested by an elevation of cholesterol total, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and triglyceride concentrations, as well as a decrease in high-density lipoprotein (HDL).
In the study carried out, workers with job stress were more likely to suffer abnormally high levels of LDL cholesterol (the so-called "bad" cholesterol) , excessively low levels of HDL cholesterol ("good" cholesterol) and a potential for obstruction of arteries by accumulation of atheroma plaque (lipid deposition) in the arteries.
