Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Working Overtime Linked to Heart Disease
The European Heart Journal studied 6000 British civil servants and followed them for 11 years. They found that working an extra 3-4 hours a day is associated with increased coronary heart disease. The researchers controlled and adjusted for lifestyle, cardiac risk factors and other factors that would skew the results and still found that people who worked 3-4 extra hours a day had a 60%