Overworking can lead to hypertension

▴ Overworking
Long working hours on a continuous basis, can lead to hypertension, high blood pressure and eventually cardiovascular disease.

Overloading yourself with work, spending longer than usual time at workplace, make people susceptible to hypertension and high blood pressure, reveals a study conducted by a Canadian research team.

Many of these may even be suffering from a hidden form of hypertension called masked hypertension, which is very difficult to diagnose and therefore goes unnoticed by the doctors. An experiment conducted on 3,500 white-collar employees at three public institutions, revealed that compared to colleagues who worked fewer than 35 hours a week, working 49 or more hours each week was linked to a 70% greater likelihood of having masked hypertension and elevated blood pressure.

People working between 41 and 48 hours each week were linked to a 54% greater likelihood of having masked hypertension and a 42% greater likelihood of having sustained hypertension. The findings accounted for variables such as job strain, age, sex, education level, occupation, smoking status, body mass index, and other factors.

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