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Work-related stress may increase the risk of an irregular heart rhythm.
Someone working a job with high stress and low reward may face a 97 per
cent increased risk for developing the problem, known as atrial
fibrillation
(URL) https://newsroom.heart.org/news/work-related-stress-may-increase-the-... (https://newsroom.heart.org)
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|u/eightbitfit - 1 month
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|My wife's job aggravated and progressed her A-fib more than any other
|stressor. High stress with low reward, double talk, deceptive
|practices, incompetence, and rumor mills had her in dangerous territory
|that was clearly measurable with a holter. When she was able to step
|away her worst arrhythmia almost disappeared. Edit: monitor typo
|u/neuromonkey - 1 month
|
|You've just described most of the American labor relations
|environment. Employees are increasingly being treated as necessary,
|though replaceable burdens. I had a conversation with the owner of a
|beef cattle corporation who was honestly completely convinced that the
|employees were parasites. I hope your wife stays healthy! There is no
|paycheck big enough to compensate for serious health problems.
|u/enaK66 - 1 month
|
|A consequence of extreme income inequality. The further the income
|gap widens, the more the rich stray from reality, and the easier it
|is to dehumanize us.
|u/neuromonkey - 1 month
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|It is truly exhausting... which is part of why its so effective.
|u/changen - 1 month
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|when let them eat cake happens again, we will see some heads roll
|(literally). I think most of the old money in America has learned
|to be hidden/humble about their wealth since the Great Depression.
|It's the new money that hasn't learned the lesson that will have
|them headless
|u/honeybadger9 - 1 month
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|The low birth rate is a consequence of extreme capitalism and will
|balance it out in the end. Can't move goods if there is no
|consumption and labour pool.
|u/skeptibat - 1 month
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|> measurable with a halter. Isn't that what horses wear?
|u/bealavalle - 1 month
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|Probably means a Holter monitor
|u/skeptibat - 1 month
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|That makes a lot more sense, thanks.
|u/eightbitfit - 1 month
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|Yes, thank you.
|u/Warm_Gur8832 - 1 month
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|Jobs themselves are not nearly identified enough in health screenings.
|We have questions about cigarettes, alcohol, weed, etc. in health
|screenings. None about hours worked, night shifts, or feelings about
|your job.
|u/jdehjdeh - 1 month
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|Night shifts needs to be more publicly broadcast as bad/dangerous to
|your health. Every place I've worked nights had multiple heart
|attacks from a relatively low amount of employees. So glad I'm out of
|that now.
|u/Warm_Gur8832 - 1 month
|
|Yeah, I think overtime pay needs to be applied to night shift hours.
|u/judolphin - 1 month
|
|When I was an independent contractor I had three rates in my
|contract... * a "business hours rate", * a 1.5x "after-hours
|rate" (with minimum 1 hour billed regardless of time worked), and
|* a 2x "weekend/holiday rate" (minimum 8 hours billed regardless
|of time worked) If they wouldn't agree, I wouldn't work for them.
|Extremely effective at deterring night/weekend/holiday calls, and
|if they did, it was for very good reason, and I was fine with the
|extra money. I know I was extremely privileged to be able to
|demand this. I also feel this is how it should be everywhere.
|u/Raichu4u - 1 month
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|We need collective bargaining and nationwide unions to achieve
|this.
|u/IlllIlllI - 1 month
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|You know the world we live in. This would just result in higher
|insurance premiums for people who work long hours or nights.
|u/TheGeneGeena - 1 month
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|"High stress and low reward" Call centers are deadly. (My partner has
|had coworkers have heart attacks at nearly all of them he's worked at.)
|u/SemiHemiDemiDumb - 1 month
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|My friend had to quit one because his blood pressure caused his nose
|to bleed.
|u/TheGeneGeena - 1 month
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|I had to quit a job over that! It was in sales though (portrait
|studio).
|u/Baloasi-A - 1 month
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|I am literally about to. Had massive nosebleeds because of lack of
|sleep and stress yesterday and three days ago and me not going to
|work when I got morning shifts because of that and higher ups
|telling me nothing about it but "ok" only increases my ambiguity
|regarding the matter, making me only more stressed. Its fun. I
|haven't felt as much rage as I have felt today since a few years
|ago. For a first job this has not made a very good impression even
|if I had all the rest of the conditions. Waking up at 4 am is not
|for me. Simple as
|u/NovaKaiserin - 1 month
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|So every working class person has an increased risk of dying at work 
|u/NovaKaiserin - 1 month
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|Capitalism can and would eat my shorts if I sold them on OnlyFans.
|u/Baial - 1 month
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|Huh, it sure sucks those are the only two options.
|u/thecrimsonfools - 1 month
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|"No capitalism? Straight to Gulag. No middle ground."
|u/OgdruJahad - 1 month
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|Straight to jail. Only 1 bowl of gruel for you.
|u/1900grs - 1 month
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|I like how you conflate simply existing in one system with prison
|camps.
|u/fart-sparkles - 1 month
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|Anything other than high-stress low-reward jobs is socialism?
|Idiot.
|u/happierinverted - 1 month
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|Anything other than high-stress low-reward jobs in capitalism?
|Twat.
|u/Frathic - 1 month
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|You joke but fasting actually slows down aging, but starvation is
|gonna kill you.
|u/Chateau-d-If - 1 month
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|Bet that boot is delicious
|u/happierinverted - 1 month
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|Big government advocate [Socialist] telling me how much I love
|the boot? Funny if it wasn’t so sad.
|u/Goatzilla44 - 1 month
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|Although i take most of the blame in someways i’m literally going
|through this right now. Like i wake up and my blood pressure skyrockets
|at the thought of going to work and i’m genuinely pretty miserable
|lately. Been having bad heart palpitations and worn a heart monitor but
|all i’ve been told is it’s Anxiety. Shits fuckin tough.
|u/Aggravating_Ad9122 - 1 month
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|This is happening to me too, and keep in mind I’m only 19 years old, I
|hear a lot of people nowadays are getting high blood pressure
|disgnosis’ young due to diet, stress, anxiety. Etc. I can’t even walk
|up the stairs without my heart pounding out my chest and have had
|every test done at the cardiologist, my last resort which I’m taking
|right now is blood pressure meds.
|u/johnmudd - 1 month
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|I've used my PVCs as biofeedback letting me know when to back away from
|work.
|u/SomeGuyNamedPaul - 1 month
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|Not afib but atrial flutter here and I went from a high stress (annual
|layoffs and zero tolerance for mistakes under and increasing workload,
|rotating night shift, working weekends and holidays, 60-70 hour weeks,
|actually got wheeled out of the office on a stretcher once) to low
|stress (chill managers, normal schedules, no constant emergencies, etc)
|and my atrial flutter has gone from acting up almost daily to a very low
|rate of even mild occurrences.
|u/ParadiseLost91 - 1 month
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|I also have atrial flutter! Like you, it went from a near-daily
|occurrence to almost nothing. All I did was switch from a full time
|job with added on-calls on nights and weekends, to a full time job
|without on-calls (I’m a vet). I don’t think I can ever go back to
|working night/weekend on-calls on top of working full time. My Apple
|Watch also clearly shows how my resting HR has gone down since I
|switched to a job without working nights.
|u/SomeGuyNamedPaul - 1 month
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|I unfortunately had a cardiac ablation done and while it helped
|somewhat they also damaged a frenic nerve so my diaphragm is
|partially paralyzed. I had to relearn how to breathe by using my
|stomach muscles inside of my chest. And since one lung partially
|sits there there's pressure on my heart from it and my resting pulse
|is like 85 or so. FYI, this is how your watch figures out your
|breathing rate. As your lungs fill and empty they place a bit of
|pressure on your heart and it speeds up and slows down in rhythm.
|If you analyze that pattern then you can discern the respiratory
|rate.
|u/ParadiseLost91 - 1 month
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|Yes that’s exactly right! That’s also how I determine respiratory
|rates in animals, if I can’t hear their breathing properly with
|the stethoscope (some owners like to keep talking while I’m
|auscultating, making it near impossible to hear the breathing
|sometimes). Instead, you can listen for the slight irregularly in
|heart rate, and that determines the respiratory rate. Very handy,
|I didn’t realise that’s also how the watches do it.
|u/LeEpicBlob - 1 month
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|My mom had a mild heart attack from work stress. Went to the ER, all the
|tests showed everything looked normal, no clots or anything. Just
|stress. She quit 2 months later
|u/mcguire150 - 1 month
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|Just as an anecdote: when I started my first faculty position, I was so
|stressed that I could induce an irregular heart rhythm on command just
|by thinking about work. My doctor didn't believe me until I asked him to
|take my pulse, confirm it was normal, and then take it again as I
|started thinking about work. He was pretty surprised. Cutting down on
|coffee and seeing a therapist helped me a lot.
|u/Wagamaga - 1 month
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|Work-related stress caused by job strain and an imbalance between
|efforts applied vs. rewards received may increase the risk of developing
|atrial fibrillation, according to new research published today in the
|Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed
|journal of the American Heart Association. Also known as AFib or AF,
|atrial fibrillation is the most common form of arrhythmia – an abnormal
|heart rhythm. It can lead to stroke, heart failure or other
|cardiovascular complications. More than 12 million people are projected
|to have AFib in the United States by 2030, according to the American
|Heart Association’s 2024 heart disease and stroke statistics. Previous
|research linked high job strain and effort-reward imbalance at work with
|an increased risk of coronary heart disease. This research is the first
|to examine the adverse effect of both psychosocial stressors at work on
|atrial fibrillation, said the study’s senior author Xavier Trudel,
|Ph.D., an occupational and cardiovascular epidemiologist and associate
|professor at Laval University in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. “Our
|study suggests that work-related stressors may be relevant factors to
|include in preventive strategies,” Trudel said. “Recognizing and
|addressing psychosocial stressors at work are required to foster healthy
|work environments that benefit both individuals and the organizations
|where they work.” [https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.123.
|032414](https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.123.032414)
|u/Exciting_Current3192 - 1 month
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|It’s actually a HOLTER monitor. Also, similar situations, job related or
|not, high stress low reward, deception, etc. will increase myocardial
|irritability. In the middle of an imploding marriage I am the poster
|child for this with multifocal PVCs, trigemini, etc. and minimal
|underlying CAD. Never had them before.
|u/Beginning-Back-7856 - 1 month
|
|Just quit my job due to this. Merchants (small business owners,
|sometimes big companies) yelling almost everyday at us on the front line
|and a toxic-predatory company just don’t mix. Best decision I ever made
|for myself. I will NEVER go back to a call center. $23.18 was never
|worth my sanity.
|u/OgdruJahad - 1 month
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|It's amazing Stressed Eric somehow survived.
|u/Hanuman_Jr - 1 month
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|This was one of the reasons I quit my high-stress low-esteem job. That,
|plus working with Trumpy elected officials in North Carolina.
|u/JALLways - 1 month
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|It must be related to all high stress for prolonged periods. I think my
|wife is developing this due to caring for our special needs kids.
|u/twinkiesandcake - 1 month
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|I find it interesting that everyone here is talking about heart attacks
|which is typically a vfib response or sudden cardiac response in the
|lower ventricles. The article talks about afib which is in the upper
|atria or the left atrium of the heart which leads more to strokes, high
|blood pressure, etc.
|u/Upstairs-Ad4601 - 1 month
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|Low reward job = lower pay. Lower pay has been strongly associated with
|hypertension and smoking for decades. Hypertension and smoking are the
|most common causes of afib. No surprises here
|u/no-anonymity-is-fine - 1 month
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|Oh... I went through a LARGE amount of stress for a long period of time
|in high school I've also had afib at 21 or so, so that's cool
|u/mrlego45 - 1 month
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|What about high stress/high reward jobs?
|u/OccidentalTouriste - 1 month
|
|Happened to me after I transferred to a new site (as site manager) in a
|different country and after numerous questions to head office about when
|the next phase project budget was due and reassurance was given it was
|weeks away (and not to worry) I was suddenly given 48 hours notice for
|the first draft. I could hear and feel my heartbeat and it was a weird
|and very unsettling sensation I've never felt before or since. Took
|about two weeks for the arrhythmia to settle back down to normal.
|u/NorthStarZero - 1 month
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|I wonder if I can get this accepted by VAC.
|u/HEBushido - 1 month
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|I'm honestly getting really sick of these titles never saying how much
|the actual change is. Telling me a person has a 97% increased chance is
|honestly not helpful when I don't know what the baseline is.
|u/brokenwound - 1 month
|
|Cool... I really hope it cancels out my genetic atrial fibrillation risk
|cause I sure don't need it resonating.
|u/itsridicuuulous - 1 month
|
|I got this from the pfizer covid vaccine
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