Stress at Work Can Be Deadly

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Stress at Work Can Be Deadly

January 29, 2008 3:22 PM

On-the-job stress can kill you, according to a long-running British study. It found that work-related stress disrupts the body's internal systems, which raises the risk of heart disease, the world's leading cause of death. To measure the effect of stress, researchers conducted seven surveys on more than 10,000 British civil servants over a 12-year period and found chronically stressed workers' risk of developing heart disease was 68 percent higher than fellow survey participants. Tarani Chandola, the epidemiologist at University College London who led the study, said that a combination of behavioral and biological factors are to blame. Chandola said that stressed workers were more likely to participate in unhealthy behaviors that are linked to heart disease such as smoking and skipping exercise. They also had higher-than-normal levels of the "stress" hormone cortisol and had lowered heart rate variability, which is a sign of a poorly functioning, weak heart.