Work stress and poor sleep are linked to a threefold increase in the risk of cardiovascular death in employees diagnosed with hypertension, finds a new study.

‘Work-related stress and impaired sleep are directly associated with raised blood pressure and the risk of death due to heart disease. Employers should provide stress management and sleep therapy in the workplace, especially for workers with chronic conditions like hypertension.
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"Sleep should be a time for recreation, unwinding, and restoring energy levels. If you have stress at work, sleep helps you recover," said study author Karl-Heinz Ladwig, Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Read More..





"Unfortunately poor sleep and job stress often go hand in hand, and when combined with hypertension the effect is even more toxic," Ladwig said.
The study included around 2,000 hypertensive workers aged 25-65, without cardiovascular disease or diabetes.
Compared to those with no work stress and good sleep, people with both risk factors had a three times greater likelihood of death from cardiovascular disease.
People with work stress alone had a 1.6-fold higher risk while those with only poor sleep had a 1.8-times higher risk, the study said.
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"If you have high demands but also high control, in other words, you can make decisions, this may even be positive for health," said Ladwig.
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