Contents:
- Medical Video: 5 Common Signs of Heart Disease
- Overview of atrial fibrillation
- Why can working hours too long trigger heart rhythm disorders?
Medical Video: 5 Common Signs of Heart Disease
Excessive hours of work is one of the problems faced by many people. If working hours are too long and exceed the limit, this can have a negative impact on a person's quality of life, can even cause various diseases.
Recent research reveals that working hours that are too long can increase the risk of vascular abnormalities such as stroke. In fact, it is only known that heart rhythm disorders can occur, which are more commonly known as atrial fibrillation.
Overview of atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation is a disorder of the heart rate. This disease can occur because of an electrical disturbance in the heart that controls the normal heart rate rhythm, so this can result in a change in heart rate rhythm. This change in heart rhythm can eventually cause the sufferer to feel palpitations and may feel chest tightness, fatigue, and headaches.
Atrial fibrillation can also occur without symptoms. However, it is very important to detect this disease as early as possible because this disease can increase the risk of strokes by up to five times. Atrial fibrillation can also result in heart failure and dementia.
Some of the factors that trigger the occurrence of atrial fibrillation include heart and lung disorders, and high blood pressure. These diseases can trigger atrial fibrillation.
However, a number of studies also reveal other trigger factors such as smoking, obesity, consumption of alcoholic beverages, and hypertension, aka high blood pressure. In addition, lifestyle factors and psychological stresses can also be triggers for heart disorders. One of the factors causing psychological stress (also called psychosocial stress) is excessive working hours. Yes, working hours too long can be a potential trigger for atrial fibrillation.
Why can working hours too long trigger heart rhythm disorders?
Research reveals that a small number of workers who have working hours too long each week are more at risk of suffering from heart rhythm disorders or atrial fibrillation. This happens to employees who generally work more than 55 hours per week (for example 11 hours for 5 working days per week) compared to workers who have normal working hours, ie 41-48 hours per week.
This can also be related to the life habits of the employees themselves. In this case, employees who spend more time at work or have great pressure from the office generally have an unhealthy lifestyle. For example, like snacking carelessly, not paying attention to nutritional intake, eating too much, smoking, drinking alcoholic beverages excessively, and rarely exercising. These things can eventually trigger the occurrence of heart disorders and various other serious diseases.
So, it is important for everyone to balance working hours with other productive activities. For example exercising, traveling, getting enough rest, preparing healthy and nutritious foods, or relaxing with meditation.
If your work hours at the office are long, try to keep choosing healthy foods, stop smoking, avoid consuming alcohol, and keep exercising lightly between activities. Remember, every night you also have to take a good rest. Don't even be busy playing cellphones or opening social media before going to bed, huh.
