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E Farinaro

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[Frequency of ischemic cardiopathy in different types of work activities].

The Authors refer the Health Surveillance outcomes on 3185 workers of Campania region from 1996 to 2001: CHD frequencies and relationship between the individual (age, BMI, smoking, serum cholesterol) and the occupational risks factors (work strain and shift). All risk factors increase the frequencies of CHD, but the work strain and the shift determinate an upper increase of the relative risk. The Authors suggest far reaching programs of Health Surveillance, useful to define and to control the specific work risks and to improve the worksite health promotion.

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[Burnout: rising interest phenomenon in stressful workplace].

Many stressful situations, particularly strong and long time lasting, can induce the burnout syndrome. The definition "burnout" refers to emotional and exhausting conditions related to working environment. Since 70'ties, many studies, have focused on this topic, have assessed that this condition is much more frequent in some particular professional categories: teachers, physicians, nurses, social workers, policemen, judges (the so-called helping professions). The main syndrome characteristics are: physical and emotional fatigue, depersonalization, frustration for unsuccessful professional realization and reduced personal accomplishment in competence and productivity with decreasing critical sense towards working field. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) has been the most popular instrument for measuring burnout in medical research. The coherence of many studies results on helping professions in different countries, leads to the conclusion that basically burnout is a psycho-social phenomenon of international relevance. These studies have also identified personal, relational and environmental risk factors susceptible to prevention.

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[New trends in the prevention of ischemic heart disease].

In the past years several studies have confirmed the causal role of the three major risk factors, i.e. hypercholesterolemia, hypertension and cigarette smoking in the determination of atherosclerosis and its major complication, coronary heart disease (CHD). In particular the Lipid Research Clinics Primary Prevention Trial and, more recently, the Helsinki Heart Study, have demonstrated beyond doubt the effectiveness of dietary and pharmacological intervention in subjects affected by hypercholesterolemia. The mounting alertness derived from the results of these and other trials has generated the need for "codifying" strategies directed towards the prevention of CHD in the industrialized western world. The population strategy tends to modify cultural and environmental habits such as diet, cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse, physical exercise etc. The individual strategy is directed at identifying, within each population, those individuals who are probably carriers of a particular risk factor, for instance those affected by hyperlipidemia of genetic origin. The two strategies are intended to be two complementary moments in the ceaseless fight against CHD.

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