Men with stressful jobs 'double the chance of having a stroke'

"Having a stressful job can double a man's chances of suffering a stroke, a new study has shown. But women under pressure in the workplace do not seem to be at the same risk of stroke, scientists found. The researchers speculate that the difference between the sexes could be because women approach stressful jobs differently to men or because more of them work part-time. Strokes are one of the most common killers in Britain, affecting an estimated 150,000 people each year, of which more than 67,000 die. The study found that there were two major factors which determined how stressed employees felt at work, the demands of the job itself and the amount of control they felt over their day-to-day working life. The findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine journal, show that those workers in "high-strain" jobs, which were both extremely demanding and over which they had little control, were twice as likely to suffer a stroke as those in "low-strain" positions" - Telegraph