Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Job Burnout May Make People More Prone to Developing Diabetes
An Israeli study suggests that people who suffer from job burnout may be prone to developing a form of diabetes. The research, apparently the first of its kind, doesn’t definitively confirm a link between workplace stress and diabetes. But it does suggest that burnout could boost the risk of illness by a “magnitude similar to other risk factors, such as high body mass index, smoking and lack of physical exercise,” said study lead author Samuel Melamed, an associate professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
Posted by Tom Beckman on 11/22 at 02:13 PM
Burnout • Diabetes • Productivity/Performance • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink
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