Study: Working Overtime Increases Risk Of Heart Disease
A recent research has revealed that people who regularly work overtime and spend 10 or 11-hour working in a day increase their heart disease risk by nearly two-thirds.
The findings, published online in the European Heart Journal, come from a study of 6,000 British civil servants. According to researchers people who work three to four hours of overtime a day ran a 60% higher risk.
Experts said the findings clearly shows that it is important to maintain work-life balance. "People who spend more time at work have less time to exercise, relax and unwind," said Dr John Challenor, from the Society of Occupational Medicine. The researchers said that a career-driven person will also tend to be a "Type A" personality who is highly driven, aggressive or irritable.
Lead researcher Mianna Virtanen, an epidemiologist at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki and University College London, said, "More research is needed before we can be confident that overtime work would cause coronary heart disease."
