Open AccessCardiovascular risk factors and primary selection into shift work
Author(s) -
Kirsten NabeNielsen,
Anne Helene Garde,
Finn Tüchsen,
Annie Høgh,
Finn Diderichsen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.1230
Subject(s) - evening , shift work , medicine , odds ratio , confidence interval , obesity , smoking cessation , gerontology , demography , physical therapy , psychiatry , physics , pathology , astronomy , sociology
This study examined differences between future shift workers and future day workers as regards cardiovascular risk factors before they began different work schedules and the differences that remained after control for sociodemographic factors and general self-efficacy.