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IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A University of California study says the risk of high blood pressure increases with longer working hours.
The study done at the UC-Irvine campus was based on a telephone survey of more than 24,000 California workers and analyzed by a team led by Drs. Haiou Yang and Dean Baker, reports WebMD.
The study said those who work 40 hours a week are 14 percent more likely to have high blood pressure than those who work 11 to 39 hours a week.
Those who work 41 to 50 hours a week increase the risk by 17 percent, and for those working more than 51 hours, the risk increases to 29 percent.
"American workers now work longer hours than workers in any other industrial country in the world -- including Japan," Baker said.
The findings, appearing in the October issue of the journal Hypertension, also noted working longer hours leaves a person less time to recover from the effects of hard work. Such a lifestyle also leads to more drinking, smoking, and fast food, and too little exercise.
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