Work stress, sleep disorders, and fatigue ‘rising more steeply in women’

The trend coincided with an increase in the number of women working full-time from 38% in 2007 to 44% in 2017

The researchers said they found an overall increase in non-traditional risk factors in both sexes, but these were more pronounced in female participants, while most traditional cardiovascular risk factors remained stable.

Work stress, sleep disorders, and fatigue, considered as non-traditional risk factors for heart attack and stroke, are rising more steeply in women than men, a new study suggests.

Researchers compared data from 22,000 men and women in the Swiss Health Survey from 2007, 2012, and 2017 and found what they described as an alarming rise in the number of women reporting the non-traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease.