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Stress can have a very negative effect on health, especially in men in their mid-30s.
Symptoms include high blood pressure, high blood sugar or being overweight.
Psychological symptoms such as exhaustion or depression can also occur.
Whether it’s stress in everyday life, at work or in your free time – a lot of stress can affect your health. And the perceived stress has been increasing across the population since 2013 Survey of the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) result. Starting with physical complaints such as back or headaches and stomach problems, constant stress can also affect the psyche – and trigger sexual reluctance, burnout and depression. A typical risk group for the health and psychological consequences of stress are men in their mid-30s.
In the TK survey, women stated more frequently than men that they were stressed. But since 2013, stress has increased more in men than in women. “A typical risk group are men in their mid-30s on the stock market who are constantly under enormous stress. Many have harmfully high blood pressure levels without those affected even knowing about it,” explains Jörg Bojunga, head of the department of endocrinology, diabetology and nutritional medicine at the University Hospital Frankfurt to the business magazine “business week“ (Wiwo). The magazine took the TK report as an opportunity to talk to the doctor.
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The doctor is quoted as saying that constant stress can derail the human hormone system and subsequently lead to illnesses. These include high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar or being overweight, even sexual reluctance, feelings of exhaustion and depressive episodes, according to Bojunga.
Constantly high levels of stress also lead to those affected storing fat. Hormone-active fat that settles in the abdominal region is particularly dangerous. “These are typically men who look normal from behind, but then have a strongly bulging stomach,” explains the doctor. And this belly fat also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. Managers were often among his patients, Bojunga told “Wiwo”.
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