Study Finds, Working A 10-Hour Day Increases Your Stroke Risk
As if the warm summer weather wasn’t enough incentive for you to take a break from work, these new findings might just do the trick. According to a French study published in the American Heart Association’s journal, Stroke, working 10-hour days can increase your chance of having a stroke. The study looked at 143,592 participants with full-time jobs, excluding anyone who’d had a stroke prior to the study. Of the participants, 29% (42,542 people) reported working long hours and 10% (14,481 people) reported working long hours for an extended period of 10 years or more. Those who reported working 10 hours or more had a 29% greater risk of having a stroke in their lifetime, while those who did so for 10 years or more had a 45% greater chance of stroke. Adobe The most surprising finding, according to study author Alexis Descatha, M.D., Ph.D., is the fact that the extended periods of longer work hours — and therefore the 45% grea...