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Cardiovascular age of workers with different employment categories
Byung-Kook Lee1, Jaeouk Ahn2, Nam-Soo Kim3
1Department of Preventive Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Asan, South Korea.
Introduction:
We compared the cardiovascular age (an indicator of cardiovascular disease risk) in workers with different employment status after adjustment for demographic and socioeconomic factors.
Methods:
This cross-sectional study used data collected from 2007 to 2017 for the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). Study participants were placed into different employment categories based on employment status and work schedule: regular full-time, regular part-time, temporary full-time, temporary part-time, daily full-time, and daily part-time.
Results:
Analysis of women indicated that regular part-time, temporary full-time, temporary part-time, daily full-time, and daily part-time workers were more likely to have an older cardiovascular age (OR = 1.180, 1.238, 1.297, 1.493, and 1.408, respectively) after adjustment for age, marriage, education, income, residence, region, and drinking status. Analysis of men indicated employment status was unrelated to cardiovascular age.
Conclusion:
Female nonstandard Korean workers were more likely to have an increased cardiovascular age. However, most of these workers, especially daily workers, are not currently protected by the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of Korea. Collaboration or networking with community-based health care services in Korea is essential to better manage the health of these vulnerable female workers.
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