Shin KS, et al. – The association of weekly working hours with the occurrence of cerebro–cardiovascular diseases was investigated in this current study. Findings indicated that an increase in average weekly working hours may trigger the onset of cerebro–cardiovascular disease.

Methods

• Researchers searched for average working hours during the 7 days before the onset of illness (hazard period) and average weekly working hours between 8 days and 3 months before the onset of cerebro-cardiovascular diseases (control period) for 1,042 cases from the workers’ compensation database for 2009.

Results

• Findings demonstrated that among all subjects, the odds ratio by conditional logistic regression for the risk of cerebro-cardiovascular diseases with a 10 hr increase in average weekly working hours was 1.45 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.22–1.72), a significant association.