A study of 6,000 British civil servants found a 60% increase in the probability of coronary heart disease
Working 10 or more hours a day is bad for the heart, according to results of a study in the UK. People who usually work three or four hours over the seven rules are 60% more likely to suffer serious heart problems, including heart attacks than those who serve their time, researchers have said, based on a study conducted over 6,000 British civil servants over 11 years. Work an hour or two has not, however, adverse effects.
The relationship between work hours and heart disease is demonstrated in the study, but not the cause, which may be the stress of overwork. In general, people tend to take hours with a pattern A (these tend to be aggressive, competitive, tense, aware of the passage of time and usually hostile), or suffer psychological disorders manifested by depression and anxiety and may not get enough sleep or do not have time to relax before sleep, researchers say.
Virtanen Marianna, Finnish epidemiologist, said: “The relationship between daily working hours and coronary heart disease has proven to be independent of a wide variety of risk factors that we measured at baseline, such as smoking, being overweight or suffer from high cholesterol. ” The work is published in the European Heart Journal
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