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Working long hours affects health, according to W.H.O .. Working 55 hours or more a week is associated with a 35 percent higher risk of stroke  and a 17 percent higher risk of dying from ischemic heart disease, a 16-year study found. Your 9 to whatever-hour job is killing you. This news may motivate or scare you hearing it at the start of the week, depending on what kind of worker you are.  The World Health Organization (WHO) just released the findings of a 16-year study that links mortality to longer working hours. Published in the journal Environment International, the joint study by the WHO and the International Labor Organization found that in 2016 alone, 7,45,000 people died from stroke and heart disease linked to prolonged work hours.  That’s 30 percent more than the figure recorded in 2000. “Working 55 hours or more per week is a serious health hazard,” said Maria Neira, Director of the WHO’s Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health. Middle-aged or olde...