Saf Health Work.  2018 Jun;9(2):144-148. 10.1016/j.shaw.2017.07.008.

Heart Disease and Occupational Risk Factors in the Canadian Population: An Exploratory Study Using the Canadian Community Health Survey

Affiliations
  • 1Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada. behdin@gmail.com
  • 2Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3M6, Canada.
  • 3Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, Faculty of Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada.
  • 4Special Education Department, Loretto College, Toronto, Ontario, M6H 2N1, Canada.

Abstract

BACKGROUND
The objective of this study is to find temporal trends in the associations between cardiovascular disease and occupational risk factors in the context of the Canadian population.
METHODS
Population data were analyzed from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) collected between 2001 and 2014 for trends over time between heart disease and various occupational risk factors: hours worked, physical exertion at work, and occupation type (management/arts/education, business/finance, sales/services, trades/transportations, and primary industry/processing).
RESULTS
We found no significant difference in the average number of hours worked/wk between individuals who report having heart disease in all years of data except in 2011 (F 1,96 = 7.02, p = 0.009) and 2012 (F 1,96 = 8.86, p = 0.004). We also found a significant difference in the degree of physical exertion at work in 2001 (F 1,79 = 7.45, p = 0.008). There were statistically significant results of occupation type on self-reported heart disease from 2003 to 2014.
CONCLUSION
Canadian data from the CCHS do not exhibit a trend toward an association between heart disease and the number of hours worked/wk. There is an association between heart disease and physical exertion at work, but the trend is inconsistent. The data indicate a trend toward an association between heart disease and occupation type, but further analysis is required to determine which occupation type may be associated with heart disease.

Keyword

occupational health; occupation type; physical exertion; self-reported cardiovascular disease

MeSH Terms

Cardiovascular Diseases
Health Surveys*
Heart Diseases*
Heart*
Occupational Health
Occupations
Physical Exertion
Risk Factors*
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