BUSINESS STRESS SAID NOT TO BE STRAIN ON HEALTH

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28661, 11 August 1958, Page 9

BUSINESS STRESS SAID NOT TO BE STRAIN ON HEALTH

(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 9. Doctors have knocked away the foundations of the old argument that the stress of business responsibility and working against the clock puts a dangerous strain on health, according to the “Daily Express.” In convincing, comparative tests, they h*tve shown that the harassed executive is no more prone to coronary thrombosis, peptic ulcer, anxiety neurosis and nervous breakdown than the underlings he harasses, the newspaper said. v According to a survey by a Los Angeles team, stress symptoms seemed to be more closely related to home life than the .office. Inquiries by the social medicine unit at Oxford University had shown that duodenal ulcers were as common among labourers as among the most hunted-looking managing directors. Dr. Philip Hopkins had found in a London study that stress, symptoms were even commoner among women by some 20 per cent. Heavy workers had only half

the heart attack mortality of light workers. The molly-coddled, middle-aged man was not exerting enough physical effort to keep himself in good, insurable health, the doctors had found. The ambitious, self-driving man need not become a candidate for a coronary on. the day he gets his name on the office door, providing he remembers two rules, said the “Daily Express”: lethargy is more lethal than overwork; and one big business lunch can, put more strain on the I heart than a dozen difficult deals. |