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Study Links Women's Long Work Hours To Increases In Cancer, Heart Disease

Ohio State Professor Allard Dembe

Is there a correlation between working overly long hours for much of your adult life – and chronic illness?  A new study seems to suggest that, yes, there is.  Especially among women.  Allard Dembe is an Ohio State University Professor of health services management and policy and the lead author of the study.

Allard Dembe is an Ohio State University Professor. The study is published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.