The workplace environment and scheduling system especially in the night shift requires from the nurse to make significant adjustments to his /her personal life style and daily routine. (2) While shifts vary according to a healthcare facility or hospital, the typical night shift is between the ...
To explore how such a misalignment might raise the risk for developing serious health issues, Scheer and his colleagues conducted a laboratory test designed to mimic the acute effects of jet lag and/or the chronic impact of regular shift work. In the experiment, the bodily responses of five me...
Summary:An Australian study finds that night shift workers who eat full meals or snacks overnight have worse glucose tolerance, increasing their risk of chronic health issues like diabetes and heart disease. Conducted over six days with 55 participants, the study showed that fasting ...
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...
“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 ...
That said, it is possible to retrain your body to sleep during the day and stay awake during the night. But if this retraining isn’t done correctly—or isn’t done at all—you can begin to suffer serious medical issues. Here’s how working thenight shiftcan affect your health. ...
Harry L. Smith Endowed Chair of Child Health at the MU School of Medicine. "These messages come via microscopic packages called exosomes. Our study found these packages disrupt the synchronicity of the body's systems duringnight shiftsand cause increased insulin resistance and other health issues....
Long working hours or abnormal day-night shift has been in existence from centuries and such schedules are here to stay. The main physiological consequence of such shift schedule is change in the circadian rhythm which effects our work performance, sleep patterns, mental health, accident rates and...
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 li