Workers who spend longer in the office could be at greater risk of heart disease, a study has found. More after the jump:
People who work an 11-hour day compared to those who work a standard seven or eight hours increase their risk of heart disease by 67%, according to researchers at UCL (University College London).
They said that the findings could be useful to GPs when calculating a patient's risk of heart disease alongside other indicators, such as blood pressure, diabetes and smoking.
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Over the course of the study, 192 participants suffered a heart attack.
Andrew Steptoe, British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology at UCL, said: "Even if you take those factors into account, finding out how long people work adds to our understanding of heart disease.
"This could be to do with stress, or it could be to do with other factors in peoples' lives - if you are spending 11 hours at work you are spending less time with the people you may love and like to be with.
"But we do know that work is associated with increases in stress hormones and various other biological changes which might themselves increase the risk of heart disease."
Professor Stephen Holgate, chairman of the Medical Research Council's (MRC) Population and Systems Medicine Board, said: "This study might make us think twice about the old adage 'hard work won't kill you'.
"Tackling lifestyles that are detrimental to health is a key area for the MRC, and this research reminds us that it's not just diet and exercise we need to think about."
I fucking knew that I was slowly killing myself, but I can certainly guarantee that this study was done by the lazy people who just want to take your job whilst you worry about getting a heart attack because of work.
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