Long Working Days Can Cause Heart Problems, Study Says (theguardian.com)

According to a major new study, long days at the office can be bad for your heart. While the risk of stroke is increased from working too many hours in the office, it seems that working more than 55 hours a week means a 40% higher chance of developing an irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation), when compared to those with a better work-life balance. The Guardian reports: The research team, led by Professor Mika Kivimaki from the department of epidemiology at University College, London, analysed data on the working patterns of 85,494 mainly middle-aged men and women drawn from the UK, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Participants were put into groups according to their work pattern, with 35-40 hours a week regarded as the control group. No one had AF at the start of the study, published in the European Heart Journal. After 10 years of follow-up, an average of 12.4 per 1,000 people had developed AF, but among those working 55 hours or more, this figure was higher at 17.6 per 1,000 people. Those working the longest hours were more overweight, had higher blood pressure, smoked more and and consumed more alcohol. But the team's conclusions about longer working hours and AF still remained after taking these factors into account.

Comments

Re:I'm skeptical

[Gay Kwanzaa Darkie]

We have larger penises which take two to three quarts of blood to fill when fully erect. That means that when we aren't having sex, our blood pressure is ridiculously high because the blood is forced elsewhere. Hehehe

--GKD--
(and yes, I am actually black)

Re:I'm skeptical

[Anonymous Coward]

sounds like something a black man with a tiny dick and inferiority complex would say