Working long hours may be good for your wallet, but it's bad for your health. Working more than 40 hours a week increases both the risk of stroke and the risk of coronary heart disease, according to a study just published in the Lancet. Working long hours is not healthy. The more people worked, the more their risk of stroke rose up to 33% above normal for those who worked the most.
Who says hard work never killed anyone? Finding the Workaholics in Millions of Health Records The team of researchers looked at data on strokes and heart disease drawn from large, ongoing health surveys like NHANES — the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The studies looked at both men and women and were conducted in Europe, the United States and Australia, with an average follow-up time of over seven years. When it came to strokes, researchers analyzed 17 different studies involving over…
