Having a tough week at work? Make sure you de-stress -- a new review of
studies highlights how work stress could be hurting your health.
The review, published in the Journal The
Lancet and conducted by researchers at the University College London, shows
that people with demanding, straining jobs have an overall 23 percent increased
risk of heart attack.
The findings are based on job stress and heart attack data from 200,000
people in Europe, who participated in a total of 13 studies between 1985 and
2006. The studies had an average follow-up period of 7.5 years, during which
2,356 heart attacks or heart-related deaths occurred.
Job stress has also been linked with an increased risk of diabetes in
women, as well as shorter telomeres (which could potentially speed up aging),
past research has suggested. In the telomere study, published in the journal PLoS
ONE earlier this year, Finnish scientists found that people in the study
who were affected by the highest levels of job stress were more likely to have
short telomeres, and shortened telomeres are linked with aging and possibly
even cancer.
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