By Sarah Reid, occupational health nurse manager, International SOS
Did you know that 7.6 million people in the UK are living with heart disease? And around 900,000 people are living with heart failure. Heart and circulatory disease cause a quarter of all deaths in the UK – an average of one every three minutes – and strokes cause around 35,000 deaths in the UK each year and are the biggest cause of severe disability in the UK.
A recent report published in the Lancet Medical Journal analysed 13 European studies and followed the working lives and health of nearly 200,000 people. The report concluded that "job strain" could be linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease. It was noted that those who have demanding jobs but little control over how they manage their work were most at risk.
