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01/29/2008: "Jobs will kill you"

The team conducted seven surveys over a 12-year period and found chronically stressed workers -- people determined to be under severe pressure in the first two of the surveys -- had a 68 percent higher risk of developing heart disease.

The link was strongest among people under 50, Chandola said.

"This study adds to the evidence that the work stress-coronary heart disease association is causal in nature," the researchers wrote in the European Heart Journal.

[ Jobs take us away from living in the world and coccoon us in a fantasy land of dealing with other people. Then we get stressed, bored, sad, perverse and self-destructive. Work must be done, but jobs are unnecessary. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/hl_nm/heart_stress_dc