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A new study says that promotion at work is not only good for you financially, but it also contributes to a healthy heart.

It seems people who get promoted often are less likely to develop a heart disease when compared to those who did not have a chance of growing professionally, according to researchers from University College London (UCL) and the University of California.

 "Favourable shocks can positively impact health," researcher Sir Michael Marmot, from UCL, was quoted as saying by the Telegraph

"Put together with a large body of other literature there is little question that, for individuals, achieving higher socioeconomic position is good for health. Promotion is one mechanism of upward social mobility. Upward social mobility is good for health," adds Marmot.

For the study, researchers studied employment histories of 4,700 Whitehall civil servants and found that employees who had double the promotion rate at work had 20 percent lesser chances of contracting a heart disease over the 15-year period of the study, from 1985 to 1999.

Researchers concluded that being successful professionally is good for health.

The study was published in the Economic Journal.