Workplace Stress And Your Heart
June 7th, 2010Is your boss annoying? Condescending? Even insulting? Don’t take it to heart – it can kill you.
Danish researchers have found a strong link between workplace stress and heart disease, particularly for women under the age of 51.
As part of the study, more than 12,000 nurses were asked to fill out a questionnaire about their lifestyle and occupation and were observed for 15 years. 60 percent of the women rated stress at work as either a little too high or much too high.
The women who rated their stress as much too high showed a 50% increased risk for various forms of heart disease while those who said it was slightly high had an increased risk of about 25%. Ove
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