
Shift Work and the Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases and Metabolic Syndrome Among Jordanian Employees
Author(s) -
Rana Abu Farha,
Eman Alefishat
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
oman medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 2070-5204
pISSN - 1999-768X
DOI - 10.5001/omj.2018.43
Subject(s) - medicine , framingham risk score , shift work , anthropometry , incidence (geometry) , metabolic syndrome , framingham heart study , demography , blood pressure , disease , obesity , physics , psychiatry , sociology , optics
We sought to evaluate the effect of night shift working on increasing the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) using three different predictors.