People With Full-Time Jobs And Long Commutes More Likely To Have Sleep Problems, Sedentary Lifestyles, Study Indicates

“People with full-time jobs who endure long commutes may be more likely to have sleep problems and sedentary lifestyles than counterparts who work closer to home,” investigators found. After surveying some “22,000 working-age adults at least twice between 2008 and 2018 about their work and commute hours as well as how much they drank, smoked, exercised and slept,” investigators found that “among individuals working more than 40 hours a week, commuting more than a half hour each way to work on a typical day was associated with a 25% higher risk of having an inactive lifestyle and a 16% higher risk of sleep problems.” The findings were published online in Occupational & Environmental Medicine. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-commuting/commuters-may-get-less-sleep-and-exercise-idUSKBN1Z225G