Long working weeks increase women's diabetes risk

Women who work 45 or more hours per week have a 63% greater risk of developing diabetes, new research reveals.

However, the study, published by BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, confirmed that there was no correlation between long working hours and an increased risk of diabetes in men.

Mahee Gilbert-Ouimet, co-author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, tells CNN: “If you think about all the unpaid work [women] do on their off-hours, like household chores for example, they simply do more than men, and that can be stressful, and stress negatively impacts your health.”

The study was launched to evaluate the relationship between long working hours and the development of diabetes among 7,065 workers aged between 35 and 74 in Ontario, Canada.