Job strain and the risk of stroke: an individual-participant data meta-analysis

Eleonor I Fransson¹, Solja T Nyberg¹, Katriina Heikkilä¹+43

• ¹From the Department of Natural Science and Biomedicine, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden (E.I.F.); Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (E.I.F., L.A.); Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (E.I.F., C.L., L.L.M.H., T.T., H.W.); Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Tampere, Finland (S.T.N., K.H.); Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden (L.A.); National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark (J.B.B., I.E.H.M., R.R.); Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark (M.B., M.L.N.); Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin, Germany (H.B.); Institute for Medical Sociology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (N.D., T.L.); Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Hoofddorp, Netherlands (G.A.G., W.E.H., I.L.H.); Versailles-Saint Quentin University, Versailles, France (M.G., M.Z.); Inserm, Population-based Epidemiologic Cohorts Unit, UMS 011, Villejuif, France (M.G., M.Z.); Inserm U1018, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Villejuif, France (A.S.-M.); Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK (M.H., M. Kumari, M.J.S., A.S., A.B., E.J.B., A.S.-M., G.D.B., M. Kivimäki); Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland (M. Joensuu, A. Koskinen, S.T.-T., M.V., A.V., M. Kivimäki); Institute of Behavioural Sciences (M. Jokela, M. Kivimäki) and Department of Public Health (M. Koskenvuo), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden (A. Knutsson); Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (M.N.); Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Turku, Finland (T.O., J.P., P.S., J.V.); Danish National