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...
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Night shift work has been consistently associated with higher risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer. In 2007 the World Health Organization classified night shift work as a probable carcinogen due to circadian disruption. In a study in the current issue of theAmerican Journal of Preventive...
which suggestsearly interventionto prevent diabetes and obesity is possible. Such intervention could also help lower the risk of heart disease and stroke, which is elevated innight shift workersas well.
"This tells us that when we experience things like jet lag or a couple of nights of shift work, we very rapidly alter our normal physiology in a way that if sustained can be detrimental to our health," said the paper's senior author Kenneth Wright, director of the Sleep and Chronobiology...
Night shift work is becoming increasingly common worldwide, and 15% to 33% of the working population1-3are engaged in night shift work, especially among health care workers.2Previous studies have suggested that night shift work may result in circadian disruption, sleep disturbances, and other beh...
Methods We performed a cross-sectional study of 725 nurses and midwives (354 working on rotating night shifts and 371 daytime workers). Data were collected via an in-person interview, according to the "Standard Shiftwork Index". The prevalence of particular diseases and symptoms were compared ...
About half had some meals in the daytime and some at night, which is how many night-shift workers behave. They then had the same test meal for their 7pm “breakfast”; their blood sugar levels rose by 19 per cent more than they did after the same test was carried out at...
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,...
Night shift workers were more likely to be 'owls' and to have poorer health. And they were more likely to work in service jobs or as process, plant and machine operatives; those working office hours tended to be in administrative roles and to have professional jobs. ...