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This 2021 review looked at research on the biology of burnout, which it defines as exhaustion from long or excessive workplace stress. The authors found evidence that burnout is linked with ongoing activation of the nervous system, problems in the body’s fast stress response (the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary axis), and changes in…
This review pooled evidence from 25 studies and a meta-analysis of 9 studies with 26,916 people. It found that people with burnout had higher odds of cardiovascular problems: about 21% higher after statistical adjustment (OR 1.21) and about 27% higher using crude numbers (OR 1.27). Burnout was strongly linked to…
