Older working women may be healthier as a result

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Older working women may be healthier as a result

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Postmenopausal women who work tend be in better health than their unemployed counterparts, according to a new study from South Korea. Researchers found that employed postmenopausal women were about 34 percent less likely to have so-called metabolic syndrome - a collection of obesity-related conditions that raise heart disease risk - compared to unemployed women of the same age. But one expert pointed out that it's hard to know whether jobs make women healthy or if healthy women are just more likely to have jobs. ...

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