Canadian researchers revealed that the risk of type 2 diabetes is higher among women who clock up to 45 hours a week or more at work. The findings draw attention towards yet another health risk of long working hours, encouraging a limit to provide a better work-life balance to employees. The study titled is Adverse effect of long work hours on incident diabetes in 7065 Ontario workers followed for 12 years was published in BMJ Diabetes Research & Care.
Previous studies on the link between diabetes and long working hours have largely focused on men. The Epidemiologist is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto led the new study which examined data on 7,065 working adults in Canada who were tracked for a period of 12 years from 2003 to 2015. Based on the number of hours they worked each week, participants were divided into four groups- 15 to 34 hours, 35 to…
