Women increasingly susceptible to "men's diseases"

Article here. Excerpt:

'Kay McCaw was under unbearable pressure. She was going through a divorce, selling her home and working 16 hours a day.

'I was coming home from work, crying with exhaustion and stress, then pulling myself together and getting onto the computer until two in the morning,' says the 45-year-old from Frimley, Surrey.

'My job as a PA for an international tobacco company involved dealing with people across different time zones all over the world and there was no respite from the e-mails and faxes.
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While it's well-known that job stress is linked to heart problems in men, as the Mail reported last week, researchers have found it affects women, too.

A Danish study showed that women in high-pressure jobs are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease, with those under 50 at greatest risk.

Stress is thought to have a direct effect on the heart rate. It's also indirectly linked to heart disease.

'People who are stressed are more likely to drink too much, to smoke, to eat junk food and to avoid exercise,' explains Fotini rozakeas, a cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation. These are all classic risk factors for heart disease.'

Point being that it's what one does and is expected to do that shortens one's expected lifespan. In the past, society just expected men to drop dead of things like heart attacks, etc. Now that women are beginning to experience the same thing, maybe, just maybe, society will start paying more attention to the problem of work-life balance - well, at least for women, anyway.