Reducing childhood adversities could avoid one in three cases of schizophrenia, and reducing childhood abuse could avoid one in six cases of depression.

A reduction in work-related stress could avoid one in five cases of depression. And, regarding lifestyle, physical exercise could avoid one in six cases of Alzheimer’s disease; decreasing metabolic risk factors such as excess fat in the blood could avoid one in ten cases of depression.

Moreover, avoiding maternal overweight before or during pregnancy could avoid one in 15 cases of autism in children.

Experts describe job stress as a group of emotional, psychological, cognitive and behavioral reactions to professional demands that exceed the worker’s knowledge and skills to work optimally.

The World Health Organization (WHO) relates job stress direct risks to heart disease, digestive disorders, increased blood pressure and headache, and musculoskeletal disorders.

The WHO estimated that from 21 to 32% of hypertension cases in Latin America are closely related to high job stress. pll/mem/znc