work out intemperately and you ’ll go far : It ’s a common feeling , peculiarly in the U.S. But investigator at Ohio State University ( OSU ) have latterly turn data pick up over a 32 - year period that indicates a strong work ethic might run to an increase risk of exposure of chronic disease .
Thestudywas print this month in theJournal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine . head author Allard Dembe , a professor of wellness service management and insurance policy at OSU ’s College of Public Health , examined the study schedules and medical chronicle of 7492 men and women live and work in the United States from 1978 to 2009,drawn fromtheNational Longitudinal Survey of Youth . man who toiled for more than 60 hours a hebdomad were two times more potential to suffer from degenerative joint disease or rheumatoid arthritis than men working 30 to 40 minute . Meanwhile , men who worked 41 to 50 hour a week actually had fewer incidences of lung or affectionateness disease and depression than those who work 30 to 40 hour a workweek .
More alarming were Dembe ’s finding among female subject . cleaning lady who work in nimiety of 60 hours a workweek had three times the risk of diabetes , Cancer , and heart disease , along with nearly four time the risk of infection of arthritis , of adult female who worked 40 hours or less .
Why there seems to be a substantial gender discrepancy is unclear . Dembe told UPIthat it could be attributable to the fact that woman take on the Panthera leo ’s portion of family duty , resulting in more tension , less sleep , and inattention to personal health : " My surmise is , they have to balance all these other roles , parenting , child precaution , domestic responsibilities , occupy about everyone ’s wellness care , " he tell .
Dembe also state that the increase risk rose in correlativity with the number of time of day worked : The risk was greater in women overstep 50 hours than those who exceeded 40 , for model . The study , however , was ineffectual to determine whether mandatory extra time was different from volunteered overtime , or whether these risk factors will continue to climb as subjects get older ; all were 46–53 years older when enquiry was reason .
[ h / tHealthDay / UPI ]
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