subject: Working Women Are At Increased Risk For Heart Disease [print this page] You are ambitious and have job that million men would die for. Alright, but do you know that you may be paying higher price for this. Scientists have concluded that women doing stressful jobs are more likely to develop greater heart risk. This research was carried out by Dr Haren Allesoe et al of Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark.
Working women have increased risk of heart disease. The objective of the research was to attract attention of medical fraternity towards heart ailments in women. There have been many researches in past establishing that how in industrialized economies stress has led to increased risk of heart disease in men. This research has finally determined that it affects their female counterparts too and is making them susceptible to risks like angina and heart attacks.
The finding of the research was based on the study on 12000 female nurses aged above 45. One thing that should be taken into consideration here is this study takes stress as an assessment for increased heart risk and not the other things related to job like seniority levels etc.
In this study a total of 23,170 nurses aged above 45 were to answer questions based on their health, working atmosphere, lifestyle, and occupational status. The women who had retired or had a history of heart disease were not considered. After that, 12,116 women fit the bill. The two major questions that were put up analyzed their work speed and the impact of their position in the daily office life. The researchers wanted to know whether ladies were under stress to perform the office tasks or could afford to do one or two mistakes.
To determine other social and lifestyle habits details like age, marital status, number of children, family history of other disease or heart disease in particular, drug or nicotine addiction were also taken into account.
The research concluded that 60 percent of the women admitted to work under little bit too high to much too high pressure and 25 percent of them were diagnosed for increased risk of heart disease. Women working under pressure much too high were at 47 percent increased risk. A separate study was conducted to ascertain the level of risk in fixed duration of five years.
It was observed that women feeling work pressure little too high were at 60 percent higher risk than the women working under acceptable work stress and the stakes for women working under much too high work pressures were even more dangerous. They were at 97 percent increased risk.
The study concluded that the excessive stressful demands act as predator of heart and its well-being. The extreme psychological conditions start taking toll on the health of heart in long run.
The scientists however, are treating this study as a preliminary phase of the observation and feel the need of well documented study to support the study thoroughly to determine other stressful factors in work conditions with different groups of working women other than nurses. Moreover, it is also possible that different women may have evaluated the same work flow in different stress levels.
