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RL Ro-Ting Lin
CL Cheng-Kuan Lin
DC David C. Christiani
IK Ichiro Kawachi
YC Yawen Cheng
SV Stéphane Verguet
SJ Simcha Jong
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In this study, we defined the number of cases of overwork-related CVDs as the sum of person-cases of illness, disability, or death from CVDs. (Table 1 lists the diseases included in the Taiwan criteria.) We collected the number of overwork-related CVD cases and the number of hired employees for each industry sector from the Ministry of Labor of Taiwan and the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan, respectively7,11,12,15. We further calculated the rate of overwork-related CVDs by adding up all the overwork-related CVD cases in each year by industry sector and then dividing these numbers by the total number of hired employees for each sector.

We also collected the number of overall occupational diseases recognized in Taiwan. By comparing the changes in the rate of overwork-related CVDs to the rate of occupational diseases overall, we could assess whether any changes we found could be attributed to overall, versus CVD-specific, improvements in occupational disease reporting.

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