A new study looked at how the workplace affects people's risk of dementia.
The results show a connection.
Are you frustrated and bored with your work? Then let's go looking for a job. Because if you are permanently dissatisfied with your employer, you are not doing anything good for yourself or those around you. On the one hand, there is the bad mood, which is a burden for the person concerned but also for the environment.
Chronic dissatisfaction can also lead to illnesses such as depression
*. With regard to the development of dementia, the quality of the work also plays an essential role, as an international team of researchers has now discovered.
The analysis of ten international studies showed that people with more demanding and meaningful jobs have fewer proteins in their blood that could disrupt the growth of nerve cells.
The conclusion of the study director around Mika Kivimäki from University College London:
A demanding job that demands employees and is associated with a lot of decision-making freedom lowers the risk of dementia
, as reported by the
Business Insider
portal
.
More cases of dementia among underworked workers
The study directors based their analysis on the data of 107,896 men and women. How demanding their professional activity was was measured, among other things, at the beginning of the study with the help of standard questionnaires. In addition, 4,953 proteins in plasma samples were scanned, which the researchers link to dementia. Whether the study participants suffered from dementia was determined during the follow-up period (between 13.7 and 30.1 years depending on the cohort), according to the study, which was published on the specialist portal “the bmj”. “
In the analysis, higher cognitive stimulation in the workplace was associated with lower levels of proteins that inhibit axonogenesis and synaptogenesis of the central nervous system. These proteins were associated with an increased risk of dementia
“Write the study authors.
In the group of study participants with job demands, there were
4.8 cases of dementia
per 10,000 person-
years
, in the case of cognitively under-challenged employees it was 7.3 cases, as the study shows.
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