{"id":21367,"date":"2010-05-13T01:05:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T06:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=21367"},"modified":"2010-05-14T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T18:30:37","slug":"long-work-hours-linked-to-heart-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/long-work-hours-linked-to-heart-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Work Hours Linked to Heart Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/long-work-hours-linked-to-heart-problems\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21485\" title=\"work stress\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/work-stress-300x1991.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Are you overworked and underpaid? While the underpaid part is significant, it&#8217;s the overworked part that may have an immediate impact on your health.<\/p>\n<p>According to an 11-year study, people who work at least 10 hours a day are more likely to suffer serious heart problems, including heart attacks, than people who only work seven hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>There is apparently a little flexibility with the safe work time. If you put a couple extra hours in, it&#8217;s not associated with an increased heart problem risk.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While the findings don&#8217;t provide definitive proof of coronary heart disease caused by long work hours, experts believe that the link is due to the stress associated with being overworked.<\/p>\n<p>There were 6,000 British civil servants who took part in the study. Of those, there were 369 deaths due to heart disease, non-fatal heart attacks and angina. Those who worked seven hours, or even one or two extra hours was not associated with an increased heart risk.<\/p>\n<p>(via: <a title=\"heart disease\" href=\"http:\/\/health.yahoo.com\/news\/reuters\/us_heart_overtime.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo! Health<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you overworked and underpaid? While the underpaid part is significant, it&#8217;s the overworked part that may have an immediate impact on your health. According to an 11-year study, people who work at least 10 hours a day are more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/long-work-hours-linked-to-heart-problems\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[804],"tags":[31,784,320],"class_list":["post-21367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heart-disease","tag-health-news","tag-heart-attack","tag-stress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21367"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21543,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21367\/revisions\/21543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}