Occupational Stress, Law School Hierarchy, and Coronary Artery Disease in Cleveland Attorneys

Bibliographic Data

ID19302496
AuthorsERNEST H FRIEDMAN (University Hospitals of Cleveland), Herman K Hellerstein (University Hospitals of Cleveland)
Year1968
Volume30
Issue1
Pages72-86
Publication date1968-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychosomatic Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-3174 • E-ISSN: 1534-7796
PublisherOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00006842-196801000-00007
PMID5640287
OpenAlexW2316467331
LanguageEN
Citations received6

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis which relates the prevalence of coronary artery disease to degrees of stress within an occupation. Detailed questionnaires were mailed to 3954 attorneys in Cleveland and Detroit. Prevalence of coronary disease in the 2342 responders was compared with stress ranks of legal specialties and with the quality of the law school attended, as rated independently by a law school professor. In the age group 40–69 years, stressranked specialties demonstrated slight differences which were not significant. A hierarchy of 4 school groups was established with Group I (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Chicago, Michigan) the highest. Coronary prevalence rates in ages 24–59 were compared. School Group I (0.86%) was significantly lower than School Group III (2.88%) (p 0.10). Coronary prevalence rates were related to law school quality, but not to stressranks of legal specialties, tending to support the social class hypothesis

Coronary artery disease · Family medicine · Hierarchy · Occupational stress · Sociology · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout · Internal Medicine · Law · Medicine · Workplace Health and Well-being · Gerontology

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