[jbpnoy6fifty]

Definitely believable since sustained stress is highly related to sustained blood pressure issues. Sustained stress onto your heart damages your heart and other organs such as kidney and your liver. Ask any doctor who has even remote specialization or expertise with heart disease.

Stress is directly correlational to heart disease.

If you do experience palpitation or risk of high blood, I recommend you regularly check your blood pressure 3 times a day (morning, mid-afternoon, and evening)

Please note that I am not a doctor, but have been consulted by them after expressing concerns after prolonged periods of stress and lack of sleep due to overwork in both work and school/side-projects.

Note that your health and life is more important than work or that side project you are hustling on; and you should be able to ask for sick time off, if you need a health reset. I myself feared from taking time off because of fear of getting behind on projects; and it worsened my situation.

Be sure to work out regularly and maintain a relatively healthy life style.

Too much of anything is bad for you; work, success, and stress included.

If you are less than 30; which a lot of FAANG and startups prey on, then your tolerance to working long hours is pretty high.

[coldcode]

At age 30 I worked 90 hr/s week for almost 5 months in my startup, then wound up in the hospital with the Flu. At my last job before retiring this year I worked 50 hrs/week minimum (sometimes 7 days a week for months in the past 5+ years) and I was still able to be successful, but I could see that at 63 I could no longer sustain that kind of pace without increasing my risk of dying. So I retired although I certainly could have worked for many years still (my employer was upset that I retired), but what's the point of killing yourself for someone else's benefit? I am in good shape, don't smoke or drink or do stupid things, but too much work can still get you—I am now older that every male in my dads side of the family got to be (they all died early or suffered massive strokes).

[another-dave]

As well as stress of work itself, overworking makes you time poor, so you're less likely to eat healthily, get a full night's sleep regularly, exercise, get fresh air etc.

& then may be prone to letting off steam with unhealthy habits — e.g. rich meals / takeaways too often, too many beers after work.

Feels like the impacts really compound. I worked a high stress/hours job for awhile & really glad I could get out of it. Certainly wasn't worth the money/quality of life trade-off.

[criddell]

> Stress is directly correlational to heart disease.

Is there a better word than "stress" for this? Stress (in the form of exercise) is also how you fend off heart disease.

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What should I do if I notice that my blood pressure is too high during one of those measurements?