Working Overtime is Bad for the Heart - latimes.com
"Who didn't suspect it? Working overtime, according to a long-term study, may do a number on the ticker.
The finding, which was published in the European Heart Journal, found that rates of angina, nonfatal heart attacks and death from heart-related conditions was 60 percent higher in people who worked at least three hours beyond "the normal, seven-hour day" compared with those who didn't work that amount of overtime.
We won't quibble about the "normal seven-hour day" bit. We'll go on to explain that the data came from the Whitehall II study, a long-term investigation into the health of more than 10,000 London office workers who've been tracked since 1985. This particular study looked at 6,014 of these men and women, tracking their health for an average of 11 years..."
I worked between a 60 and 80 hour week for 33 years. Is that why I had a quad bypass? Or was it all that running and exercising?
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