How To Keep Blood Pressure Down: Work Less

Perhaps it's not shocking news that people who work fewer hours have lower blood pressure, but now at least we have data to present to the boss. Here it is: compared with people who work 11 to 39 hours a week, those who work 40 hours are 14 per cent more likely to have high blood pressure. Those who work 41 to 50 hours a week are 17 per cent more likely to have high blood pressure and those who work 51 or more hours are 29 per cent more likely to have higher blood pressure.
Those numbers come from a 2001 California health interview survey covering some 24,000 people. The research, reported in Earthtimes and published in the October edition of the journal Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association, was conducted by scientists at the University of California, Irvine.