Working late at the office on a regular basis can increase the risk of having a stroke or heart disease, a study has found. Scientists found that working 55 hours or more a week can increase the chances of suffering a stroke by a third compared to the risk for people who work the regular 40 hours or less. The researchers also found a significant but smaller increased risk of developing coronary heart disease, which was 13 percent more likely in people who worked long hours compared to the normal working week.
An analysis of 17 previously published studies on nearly 5,30,000 men and women who were followed for an average period of 7.2 years found they were 33 percent more likely to suffer a stroke if they worked 55 hours or more compared with people who worked 40 hours or less per week. The link still existed even when individual differences in factors such as smoking, drinking and…
