Scientific research of the Carolinsky Institute in Sweden revealed a number of professional factors that significantly increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. The results of this study shed light on how a modern working environment can involuntarily contribute to an increase in the incidence of this chronic disease.
Scientists came to the conclusion that if you interact with patients, students, clients or in general, you can give yourself a significant risk of diabetes. This is indicated in the relevant study of the Carolinsky Institute in Sweden.
Researchers used the data of the Swedish cohort “Work, illness and participation in the labor market”, paying special attention to people aged 30-60 years, and their work in 2005. They included only those who did not have a history of diabetes and who never took antidiabetic drugs until 2005.
Scientists examined the three aspects of work that included contact with other people: general contacts, emotional requirements caused by interaction with people who are concerned about health problems or other problems, as well as confrontation at the workplace with other people. Then they also considered the structure of social support for these jobs based on Swedish works.
In total, scientists identified 20 roles in sectors with the largest number of contacts with other people, as well as the most emotionally demanding and conflict. These include roles in the field of healthcare, education, services, hospitality, social work, jurisprudence, security and transport.
In 2019, researchers of the Carolina Institute conducted a similar study of the prevalence of diabetes, but instead examined more than 200,000 Swedes with type 2 diabetes, which were in their working age in 2006-2015. They found that professional drivers, factors and cleaning workers are undergoing high risk of diabetes. Scientists believe that such people are three times more likely to have diabetes than, for example, physiotherapists and teachers.
As for communicating with people at work, there are expectations of managing emotions when employees are obliged to express or hide emotions in accordance with social, professional and organizational norms. Particularly stressful is that the emotions that manifest, and the emotions that are really felt do not coincide.
Earlier it was reported that the social examination of researchers was nationwide by the surprisingly concrete and understandable ways in which a person can be extracted. Often, even adults, emotionally mature people lose control of the most irritable.
Source: Obozrevatel
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