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KMID : 0381320010400020063
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
2001 Volume.40 No. 2 p.63 ~ p.75
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Work-related Cardiovascular Diseases
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Abstract
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Recently. unexpected natural death due to cardiovascular disorder has become the leading cause of workers´ compensated work-related death in Korea.
Occupational stress like long working hours or overwork can cause sudden unexpected death in a worker who had been suffering from an aggravated preexisting condition such as hypertensive or arteriosclerotic diseases. The Korean government has compensated the cases of cerebrovascular disease and cardiovascular disease due to overwork. but neither a resonable definition of overwork nor detailed evaluation guideline has been officially provided to verify overwork. so that the prevention of. as well as compensation for workers´ occupational stress-related cardiovascular attacks: cannot be carried out efficiently.
This review article deals the Korean criteria and its amended history for recognizing occupational cerebrovascular or cardiovascular diseases, the background on the introduction of Karoshi concept, the statistics by year. tM scientific evidence on the work-relatedness, and so on.
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