TY - JOUR AU1 - Fishta, Alba AU2 - Backé, Eva-Maria AU3 - AB - Int Arch Occup Environ Health (2015) 88:997–1014 DOI 10.1007/s00420-015-1019-0 REVIEW ARTICLE Psychosocial stress at work and cardiovascular diseases: an overview of systematic reviews Alba Fishta · Eva‑Maria Backé Received: 8 August 2014 / Accepted: 8 January 2015 / Published online: 17 February 2015 © The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract Conclusions Same to a SRev, an overview of SRev is Purpose Based on information reported in systematic used to summarize literature and identify areas in which reviews (SRevs), this study aimed to find out whether psy - research is needed. This overview can be used to: (a) Dis- chosocial stress at work leads to cardiovascular (CV) mor- seminate an up-to-date information on work-related stress bidity and mortality. as a risk factors for CV morbidity and mortality to gov- Methods A systematic search in PubMed and EMBASE ernment, health care providers, workers, and other stake- (until 2014) used a string based on PICOS components. holders; (b) Encourage governments to better regulate the A manual search was followed. Applying the predefined working conditions and consider work-related psychosocial criteria, two reviewers independently screened the titles, stress as a hazardous factor that leads to CV diseases TI - Psychosocial stress at work and cardiovascular diseases: an overview of systematic reviews JF - International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health DO - 10.1007/s00420-015-1019-0 DA - 2015-02-17 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/psychosocial-stress-at-work-and-cardiovascular-diseases-an-overview-of-LqD0LZixVe DP - DeepDyve ER -