Stressful Jobs Almost Double Women's Risk of Heart Attacks

[bobbyw24]

ANOTHER STEP FOR GENDER EQUALITY!!!!

Women with high-stress jobs face about 88 percent more risk of a heart attack than if they had low workplace strain, Harvard University researchers said.

The scientists defined the stressful positions as those with demanding tasks and little authority or creativity. Those jobs were also tied to a 40 percent greater chance of getting any kind of cardiovascular disease, said a study presented yesterday in Chicago at the American Heart Association meeting.

Job strain, social isolation and some personality traits have been recognized as raising risks in both men and women, according to the Dallas-based heart association. The new study represents the longest-running examination of the cardiovascular effects of job strain just in women, the Harvard scientists said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-14/stressful-jobs-almost-double-women-s-risk-of-heart-attacks.html

[MelissaWV]

Well, that makes sense as far as the job being very demanding but the person having almost no say in what happens. Those are probably receptionist and secretarial jobs, mostly. It's just ridiculous how much people expect you to do in a day, and you make crappy wages until you can be an admin. assistant :p

The jobs combine the worst of the worst. You hardly move all day, you usually have a short lunch and have to wolf down something less than perfectly balanced, you have bosses who yell at you, you're responsible for more stuff than three or four people should be, and your pay is low. Yep, I can see why someone would drop dead at that point.