{"id":213161,"date":"2025-06-25T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213161\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:50:14","slug":"job-that-makes-you-more-likely-to-succumb-to-one-of-britains-biggest-killers-according-to-major-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213161\/","title":{"rendered":"Job that makes you more likely to succumb to one of Britain’s biggest killers, according to major study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teachers, shop workers, receptionists, NHS staff and air stewards may be at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes<\/a>, a study has suggested.<\/p>\n

Swedish scientists found those who worked in roles involving face-to-face or telephone chats with customers or clients were more likely to be diagnosed with the condition, which can trigger deadly heart problems.<\/p>\n

They said the ’emotional demands’ and ‘confrontation’ involved with these jobs piled on stress for those who worked them, damaging their health.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The scientists based their findings on employment and health data from 3million Swedes aged 30-60 with no prior history of diabetes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Experts compared the job these people had in 2005 and if they developed type 2 diabetes over the next 15 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The research team\u2014from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm\u2014categorised jobs according to three factors.<\/p>\n

These were to what extent a job involved contact with people, the emotional demands of a job, and the degree of support a workplace offered to combat these stressors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Swedish scientists found people who worked in roles involving face-to-face or telephone chats with customers or clients were more likely to develop a serious health condition<\/p>\n

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They found those with high exposure to the emotional demands and confrontation of working with people were up to a quarter more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, compared to those who reported low exposure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For women the risk of type 2 diabetes went up 24 per cent\u00a0for emotional demands and 20 per cent for confrontation.<\/p>\n

In men, working in an emotionally demanding role boosted the risk of type 2 diabetes by a fifth, while a workplace rife with confrontation increased the risk by 15 pr cent.<\/p>\n

The researchers\u2014publishing their findings in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine<\/a>\u2014found a lack of support from managers and employers to combat the stress of these jobs dramatically increased the risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They said those lacking this support while working these demanding jobs were up to 47 per cent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Concluding, the scientists said the findings supported previous research that working in person-facing jobs was stressful and that this significantly could damage people’s health.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They explained this could be a mix of being forced to hide emotions when dealing with frustrating customers or potentially looking after people in stressful situations, for example healthcare workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How exactly these stressors could be increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes was unclear.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Almost <\/p>\n

Almost 4.3 million people were living with diabetes in 2021\/22. And another 850,000 people have diabetes and are completely unaware of it, which is worrying because untreated type 2 diabetes can lead to complications including heart disease and strokes\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Brits <\/p>\n

Brits consume almost 800 extra calories and walk 3,500 fewer steps on average when they WFH. Experts acknowledged that making your lounge your office can be a ‘cosy working environment’. However, they warned it can ‘lack structure and routine’, potentially spelling trouble for your waistline<\/p>\n

\"Their <\/p>\n

Furniture At Work has revealed what home-workers will look like in the future \u2013 and it’s not a pretty sight<\/p>\n

But the experts suggested chronic stress could be harming the body’s metabolism\u2014 which in turn inhibits its ability to process the blood sugar hormone insulin\u2014and increasing type 2 diabetes risk.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Diabetes is a potentially deadly illness which costs the\u00a0NHS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a310 billion a year to treat.<\/p>\n

Some 22,000 people are sent to an early grave each year due to type 2 diabetes in England, Government figures suggest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body doesn’t make enough insulin or the insulin it makes doesn’t work properly.<\/p>\n

This hormone is needed to bring down blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n

Having high blood sugar levels over time can cause heart attacks and strokes, as well as problems with the eyes, kidneys and feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sufferers may need to overhaul their diet, take daily medication and have regular check-ups.<\/p>\n

While person facing role were the focus of the new study, working from home (WFH) could also harm your health.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A survey in 2023 suggested that WFH\u2014with its lack of calorie burning commute and walking to meetings\u2014could be making you fatter<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And experts have created terrifying visions<\/a> of what the physical and metal toll of working from home could have on the body.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Anna displays many physical effects because of consistent use of technology, screen exposure and poor posture, as well as highlighting potential mental health issues,’ Furniture at Work said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new study does have some limitations, which the authors acknowledged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One is that as the study only looked at employment information, external factors known to increase diabetes risk, such as diet, exercise and obesity weren’t included.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teachers, shop workers, receptionists, NHS staff and air stewards may be at increased risk of developing type 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[92,393,105,211,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-213161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-nhs","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114744094095017147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}