Overworking could give you a stroke | Lifespan News
Channel: Lifespan News
Date: 2021-06-01

Overwork is linked to heart disease and stroke; so working too hard can have fatal consequences. A new large study has linked a considerable part of all deaths from ischemic heart disease and stroke worldwide to overworking. While work hours were going down worldwide during the second half of the 20th century, the trend seems to have stopped or even reversed during the 21st century. This study in particular found that the percentage of people working long hours has increased substantially between 2010 and 2016. During these years, the overworking culture seems to have gained traction, and there have been horrifying examples of deaths to which overworking may well have contributed—such as that of Moritz Erhardt, a 21-year-old intern who died after working for 72 hours straight. In Japanese, “Karoshi” means sudden death from overwork. Karoshi was coined in 1978, but the first incident that brought this phenomenon to the nation’s attention was the fatal stroke of a 29-year-old clerk a decade earlier. Karoshi deaths skyrocketed during Japan’s economic boom in the 1980s, with this pattern repeating itself all over the world.

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