Researchers have suggested that people who complain of boredom are more likely to die young, and that those who endured ‘high levels' of tedium are more than 2.5 times as likely to succumb to a heart disease or stroke than those satisfied with their lot.

The research involved the study of more than 7,000 civil servants over 25 years, and those who said they were bored were nearly 40 per cent more likely to have died by the end of study.

To pose a conclusion, the researchers at University College London analyzed the data from 7524 civil servants, aged between 35 and 55, interviewed between 1985 and 1988 about their levels of boredom. They then discovered that whether they had died by April last year.

Also it is reported that those who experienced a great amount of boredom were 37 per cent more vulnerable to have died by the end of the study, citing the cause as that those unsatisfied with their lives fall prey to such unhealthy habits as smoking or drinking, which result in reducing their life expectancy.

"The findings on heart disease show there was sufficient evidence to say there is a link with boredom", the Courier Mail quoted researcher Martin Shipley, who co-wrote the report, as saying.