Working 70 hours per week increases risk of heart attack: Doctor
New Delhi: Amid Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s advice to youth in India to work 70 hours a week, several doctors across the country told me it increases the risk of heart attack, stress, anxiety and back pain, among other diseases. Could. , During a podcast, Murthy said that if India wants to compete with developed economies that have made remarkable progress in recent decades, the youth should work 70 hours a week. Bengaluru-based cardiologist Dr Deepak Krishnamurthy breaks down the time spent by an average professional divided between work and other commitments. “24 hours per day (as far as I know)
. If you work six days a week, 12 hours per day, and sleep the remaining 12 to 8 hours, that leaves 4 hours. In a city like Bengaluru, 2 hours road , 2 hours left – brush, poop, bath, eat,” Krishnamurthy posted on X (formerly Twitter). He said this would lead to “no time to socialize, no time to talk to family, no time to exercise, no time for entertainment, companies asking people to answer emails and calls even after working hours.” Expecting.” “Then wonder why young people are having heart attacks?” According to the World Health Organization (WHO), working long hours more than 55 hours per week increases the risk of stroke by 35 percent and the risk of heart disease by 17 percent compared to working 35-40 hours a week.
In a paper published in Environment International in 2021, WHO and the International Labor Organization showed that long working hours caused 745,000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29 percent increase since 2000. “A 70-hour workweek may not be ideal or even a recommendation,” Dr. Ambrish Mithal, president of endocrinology and diabetes, Max Healthcare, wrote on X. While “mandatory or expected work hours would be about 48 hours per week,” he said that to achieve success, many people in their youth have spent 70 hours per week. However, he said, “It cannot be made mandatory.” Pediatrician Dr. Manini said that working for long hours can cause stress in the family and can lead to autism in children. Dr. Manini posted on “Can’t find time to talk together.” “Say No to 70 Hours a Week”. Another doctor, Dr. Siddharth Unnithan, a sports medicine physician, calls the 70-hour work week “ridiculous.” “That means 5 days, about 12 hours a day, which means 9 to 9. Well, my wife, who is a psychiatrist, would have a field day with increasing cases of anxiety and stress, and I would have back pain and There will be a problem of tennis elbow “
. Some doctors also said that one should not be forced to work for long hours, but should work on one’s own free will. “If you work for yourself you can work 70 hours a week. Eventually the hard work will pay off. You get the fruits of your labor. You get rich. Working 70 hours a week for someone else’s next billions Stupidity is soul-crushing work. Especially if the salary is very low,” said Karthik Balachandran, #endocrinologist at SRMC, Chennai. “If someone forces you to work so hard, the results can be disastrous, but if the strength is from within, your health will not suffer as much. Youngsters these days are working more because of external pressures. So, if you work more than 70 hours per week, because Mr Murthy told you, you will suffer,” said Dr Mukherjee Madiwada, interventional cardiologist at the Pulse Heart Charitable Trust. (IANS)
