Distinguishing groups and exploring health differences among multiple job holders aged 45 years and older

Purpose To identify distinct groups of older multiple job holders and to explore health differences between these groups. Methods We selected respondents from STREAM, a Dutch cohort study among persons aged 45 years and older, who reported having multiple jobs (N = 702). We applied latent class analysis to identify groups of multiple job holders...

The association between exposure to psychosocial work factors and mental health in older employees, a 3-year follow-up study

Purpose Unfavourable exposure to psychosocial work factors threatens older employees’ mental health, and their sustained employment. This study assesses whether an improved compared to stable unfavourable and stable favourable exposure to psychosocial work factors is associated with a change in mental health in older employees at 3-year follow...

Mental retirement? Trajectories of work engagement preceding retirement among older workers

Objectives Before actual retirement, employees may already distance themselves from work, which could be referred to as "mental retirement". However, trajectories of work motivation, ie, work engagement, have not been studied yet. The present study aimed to (i) identify different trajectories of work engagement among older workers approaching...

Mental retirement? Trajectories of work engagement preceding retirement among older workers

The association between exposure to psychosocial work factors and mental health in older employees: A three-year follow-up study

Weight fluctuation during childhood and cardiometabolic risk at young adulthood

Objectives To test the hypothesis that greater weight fluctuation between 2 and 6 years is associated with an increase in weight measures (such as body mass index [BMI]) and cardiometabolic risk in young adulthood. Study design Weight fluctuation (determined by BMI SD scores) was measured at least 3 times between the ages of 2 and 6 years in 166...

Developmental trajectories of body mass index throughout the life course: An application of Latent Class Growth (Mixture) Modelling

The aims of this study are 1) to analyse developmental trajectories of body fatness from adolescence into adulthood, thereby determining the number and characteristics of distinct body fatness trajectories, and 2) to relate these distinct subgroups to indicators of cardiovascular disease risk, revealing subgroups specifically at risk. This paper...

The 4G-allele of the PAI-1 gene is not consistently associated with a higher prevalence of coronary stenosis