Travelling an extra mile in office could take a toll on your health, say researchers.
A new study by University College London has found that those who spend more than 11 hours at work, compared with seven or eight-hour a day, increase their chance of having a heart attack by two thirds.
For their study, the researchers tracked 7,095 civil servants, aged 39 to 62, over a period of 11 years and established how many hours they worked on average a day. Over the period, a total of 192 had suffered a heart attack. But the study found that those who worked more than 11 hours a day were 67 per cent more likely to have one than those who had a “nine-to-five” job.
The study concluded that information on working hours could be useful to GPs (general practitioners) alongside other factors like blood pressure, diabetes and smoking when deciding on the mode of treatment.Professor Mika Kivimki, who led the study, was quoted by the British media as saying, “We have shown that working long days is associated with a remarkable increase in risk of heart disease.” Considering that including a measurement of working hours in a GP (general practitioner) interview is so simple and useful, our research presents a strong case that it should become standard practice.
“This new information should help improve decisions regarding medication for heart disease. It could also be a wake-up call for people who overwork themselves, especially if they already have other risk factors.”
IS this study relevant to Indian work culture, as i have seen people in India working more than 10 hour and in some profession they work all the time only government job are only for 8 hour but in private sector we have seen some of the people working more than 12 hour .
Hope our labour minister will read this study and give instruction to the labour inspector to insure recommended duty hour in each feild.
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