Admonition to myself: 11-hour workdays boost heart disease risk.
Achtung! I am writing this article for myself... and for the legions of ultra-busy people who work 11 hours a day or more. We are the people who keep the world going... but to be able to do so, we need to stay healthy and alive. On April 6, 2011, Bloomberg News reported that we were at risk and need to take immediate action to minimize the problem. The facts. Adults who worked 11 hours a day or more had a 67 percent higher risk of developing coronary heart disease than those who worked eight hours, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine reported (April 5, 2011). The researchers also found that by adding working hours to a standard heart attack risk assessment model, they could increase the accuracy of heart disease predictions by 5 percent. Heart disease is the nation's leading killer. According to the National Institutes of Health, heart disease is the nation's leading killer. More and more people succumb to it because more and more people are working mo...