These results add to prior evidence of a potentially detrimental effect of rotating night shift work on health and longevity.Beck, Angela J
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It is possible that some people working night shifts may experience fewer sleep related problems than others, the researchers said, but that for the average night shift worker, this out-of-rhythm work pattern will increase the likeliness of them struggling with regular, healthy sleep. "Because th...
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...
Conclusions We did not find significant increased risk of any of the diseases or symptoms among night shifts nurses than among the women working only during the day. The increased prevalence of thyroid disease among the women with long duration of night shift work warrants further epidemiological ...
MONDAY, March 2 -- Working the night shift might lead to hormonal and metabolic changes that raise risks for obesity, diabetes and heart disease, researchers say. "In the long run, the physiological impact of shift work on several markers involved in the regulation of body weight -- leptin,...
Nurses in hospitals across the world work shift to provide patient care 24h a day. Shift work, which for nurses often includes working overnight, disrupts natural processes. The night shift work can have serious negative physical and psychological effects on nurses' health and work performance. It...
The authors demonstrated that there was a close relationship between patterns of night-shift work and various kinds of health problems, and concluded that to insert a day off on the third day of the group D shift was effective in reducing the work load. 展开 ...
PROBLEMS of adaptation to shift-working routines may be increased by physiological disturbance when changing to night work is involved. It has been shown that performance on some kinds of work can be affected by inversion of normal time routines so that output at night is lowest in the early ...
Prof. Lu said: "We plan to analyze the association between night shift work and atrial fibrillation in different groups of people. This may strengthen the reliability of these results and serve as a warning to groups working in certain types of occupations to get their hearts checked early if...