Managers can affect heart disease, research suggests

The way managers manage their staff could have an impact on the rate of heart disease suffered by their staff, according to Swedish researchers.

The research, which will be published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, showed that the more competent staff reported their boss to be, the less risk they were at from heart disease.

Further, they also found that the association between poor leadership and the risk of serious heart disease strengthened the longer an employee... (156 more words)

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