Although heart disease is not an occupational disease, the risk of heart disease is also increased due to long-time sitting at the desk, increased pressure, irregular working hours, exposure to certain chemicals or pollutants. According to the latest article published in American "health" magazine, 10 kinds of occupations harmful to heart health are listed.
1. Sedentary work.
Like office secretaries. Dr. Martha Grogan, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, said people who work long hours and sit are at greater risk of heart disease. The specific mechanism is not clear, but sedentary can lead to a decrease in insulin sensitivity and the decrease in many kinds of fat decomposing enzymes. Experts recommend getting up and walking often or standing up to work.
2. Firefighters.
Fireman is a kind of profession that has more free time but suddenly has an urgent task. Foreign studies have found that the proportion of police and firefighters who died of a heart attack in their jobs was as high as 22% and 45% respectively, while the proportion of other jobs that died of heart disease was only 15%. Of course, higher working pressure, longer working hours, high pressure, and exposure to carbon monoxide and other polluting gases may be the factors inducing heart disease.
3. Bus driver.
Peter Scheer, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Irvine, said bus drivers must be sedentary and highly focused. Studies have shown that 56% of bus drivers in Taipei have high blood pressure, while the average proportion of employees in other industries is 31%. The proportion of bus drivers with high cholesterol and overweight is also relatively high.
4. Shift staff.
Doctors, nurses, and workshop workers are all shift workers. "Work shifts affect the rhythm of the body's biological clock, which is the key mechanism for the body to regulate blood sugar content and blood pressure." Niska, director of the New York University Medical Center, also found that night shift workers smoke more.
5. Barman.
Although many places in the United States have formulated smoking ban regulations in restaurants and bars, they are often not strictly enforced, and service personnel in these places are naturally forced to smoke second-hand smoke from customers. Studies have shown that secondhand smoke is a major culprit in increasing the risk of heart disease. Experts remind, in this kind of place work, must pay attention to ventilation.
6. Bridge and tunnel workers.
A survey of more than 5000 bridge and tunnel construction workers in New York City in 1988 showed that their risk of heart disease was 35% higher than that of ordinary people. The researchers believe that this is because these construction workers tend to work in closed passages and inhale more carbon monoxide. Studies have shown that air pollution increases the risk of heart disease.
7. Assembly line workers.
Similar to the work of this kind of assembly line, the staff are often very demanding, they are under great pressure, and they can not control the work in other fields of the production line, so they can only do their own things. Some researchers have pointed out that the inability to control one's own environment is an important stress factor inducing cardiovascular disease. A survey of 11000 British civil servants has found that people who have less control over their jobs have a higher risk of heart disease.
8. Long term overtime work.
A study of the health status of British civil servants found that people who worked 11 hours or more a day had a 67% higher risk of coronary heart disease than those who worked only seven or eight hours a day. The solution is very simple. Experts suggest eating more healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables, ensuring adequate sleep, and ensuring a certain number of exercises per week.
9. Jobs without health insurance.
According to U.S. statistics, one-sixth of Americans did not have health insurance in 2010. An interesting phenomenon is that people without health insurance generally have poor health conditions, especially their heart health, and if adults without medical insurance get medical insurance, their health level tends to improve.
10. Unemployment.
At this time, people tend to be more likely to suffer from heart disease. After all, the pressure to survive after unemployment is much greater. In 2009, a Harvard University study showed that unemployed people, who are not physically ill, may develop new problems, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease, after a year or two of unemployment. Another study also showed that if unemployment was not due to its own reasons, such as factory closures and company closures, the risk of stroke doubled.
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