Today's society is driven by a 24 h mentality which demands that over 8.6 million people (in the USA) perform shift work (Kryger et al. 2005 ). Circadian factors are a primary determinant of one's ability to cope with shift work. Humans are biologically wired to sleep during the night...
Most workers are engaged in irregular or atypical working hours, including shift and night work, which may have a negative impact on health and well-being, because of the stress from interference with psycho-physiological functions and social life. In the short term, perturbation of sleep/wake ...
Shift work, in particular night work, can have a negative impact on health and well-being of workers as it can cause: (a) disturbances of the normal circadian rhythms of the psychophysiological functions, beginning with the sleep/wake cycle; (b) interferences with work performance and efficiency...
My husband works a night shift, and I'm worried that it might be affecting his health. 现在我丈夫在值夜班,我很担心这样会影响他的健康。 He sleepsduring the day, but somehow that doesn't seem the same as getting a good night's rest. 他现在都是白天睡觉,但不知怎么回事,这样休息的效果...
Public Health May4,2022 Rotating Night Shift Work and Healthy Aging After 24 Years of Follow-up in the Nurses' Health Study Hongying Shi, PhD1,2;Tianyi Huang, ScD, MSc3,4;Eva S. Schernhammer, MD, DrPH2,5;et alQi Sun, MD, ScD2,3,4;Molin Wang, PhD2,3,6 ...
“This is a rigorous and highly controlled laboratory study that demonstrates a potential intervention for the adverse metabolic effects associated with shift work, which is a known public health concern,” said Marishka Brown, Ph.D., director of the NHLBI’s National Center on Sleep Disorders Res...
Objective Night shift work has been linked to several chronic diseases such as gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, although the epidemiological data for rotating night shift nurses are inconclusive. The aim of our study was to assess the prevalence of selected diseases and ...
"When internal rhythms are dysregulated, you have this enduring stress in your system that we believe has long-term health consequences." Though more research is needed, Van Dongen said the study shows that these disrupted rhythms can be seen in as little as three days, which suggestsearly int...
For the time being, Dr Joseph Bass, an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, agreed it is too soon to draw direct connections between shift work and specific health risks. "However, having said that, this isn't smoke and mirrors,...
A small clinical trial supported by the National Institutes of Health has found that eating during the nighttime—like many shift workers do—can increase glucose levels, while eating only during the daytime might prevent the higher glucose levels now linked with a nocturnal work life. The findings...