Long hours raise heart risk for unfit men

Men in their forties who work long hours and are unfit are at double the risk of dying prematurely from heart disease as their colleagues who work fewer hours, new medical research has found.

A study of nearly 5,000 men over 30 years published in the medical journal Heart, found that the most unfit of three categories of men who worked more than 45 hours per week were more than twice as likely to die prematurely as other unfit men who worked 40 hours or less.