14 DAY TRIAL // Researchers in Germany now say that people who are under a lot of stress at work are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives.
Writing in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, scientists with the Helmholtz Zentrum München detail that, according to data at hand, work stress can up type 2 diabetes risk by as much as 45%.
This claim is based in information collected while monitoring the overall health condition of as many as 5,300 employed individuals over the course of 13 consecutive years.
At the beginning of the study, neither of the participants, whose age ranged from 29 to 66 years old, were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Nearly 300 of them developed this condition during the monitoring period.
Interestingly enough, the scientists behind this research project say that work-related stress was identified as a type 2 diabetes risk factor independent of other variables such as obesity, age, or gender.
It's important to note that the 45% higher type 2 diabetes risk identified by this study in the case of people who experience work stress was also connected to a feeling of having very little control over activities in the work environment.
Simply put, it's having too much to do and very little say in how things are done that can get people in trouble, the Helmholtz Zentrum München specialists explain.