Working More Than 8 Hours A day Trigger Heart

Working More Than 8 Hours A day Trigger Heart - Employees often work hard to exceed 8 hours a day to achieve the target. If you are one of them, you should rethink how these work. Because according to the opinion of experts, working long hours increases the risk of heart disease by 80 percent.

A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that employees who often work overtime is significantly prone to suffer from heart attacks and strokes. According to the researchers, people who frequently experience a combination of overtime stress, high blood pressure, and unhealthy diet. These things will lead to early heart problems for employees overtime. This analysis is combined also with the results of different studies conducted 50 years. Many studies have found that compared to employees who regularly work 8 hours, those working in the office for too long at higher risk of heart disease 40-80 per cent.

Recent research studies found by the experts from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Institute with the support of Britain. The study begins with a survey in the UK revealed that working more than 11 hours a day have an increased risk of heart disease by 67 percent. Lead researcher Dr.Marianna Virtanen and colleagues collected data from 12 different studies from 1958. Since the first research on overtime would result in a person's heart health. The total study involved more than 22,000 respondents from the UK, USA, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands. The research team found that respondents working too long a risk of heart disease between 40 and 80 percent than those who work less time. Experts note the percentage of their research findings are different, but the same conclusion that heart disease is a risk the workers overtime. In the new study, researchers sought a more accurate method. Where they monitor the number of hours the workers. Based on research, the cause of heart disease in employee overtime is too long working hours. Psychologically it causes one easily stressed. Stress is increasingly driven habits that increase levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Habits such as poor diet and lack of physical activity due to time constraints.

In 2009, Dr. Virtanen's team found that overtime was just as bad as smoking in triggering the risk of dementia or dementia later in life. The team found that middle-aged workers who work 55 hours or more a week have poorer brain function than workers who work no more than 40 hours a week.