May 12, 2010 11:58 AM

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Overtime may cause heart disease

People, who regularly put in overtime and work 10 or 11-hour a day, increase their heart disease risk by nearly two-thirds. The findings come from a study of 6,000 British civil servants, published online in the European Heart Journal. After accounting for known heart risk factors such as smoking, doctors found those who worked three to four hours of overtime a day ran a 60 per cent higher risk. <br/>

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