people who spend long hours at the workplace are more likely to have high blood pressure including a type that can go undetected during a routine medical appointment, researchers warned on Thursday. Compared with colleagues who worked fewer than 35 hours a week, working 49 or more hours each week was linked to a 70 per cent greater likelihood of having "masked" hypertension and 66 per cent greater likelihood of having sustained hypertension elevated blood pressure readings, according to the study published in the American heart Association's journal Hypertension.

 

The findings was true for both men and women staffers and accounted for variables such as job strain, age, sex, education level, occupation, smoking status, body mass index (BMI) and other health factors.

 

"Both masked and sustained high blood pressure are linked to higher cardiovascular disease risk," said lead study author Xavier Trudel, assistant professor in the social and preventive medicine department at Laval university in Quebec, Canada.

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