Open AccessRelationship between shift work and onset of hypertension in a cohort of manual workers
Author(s) -
Yuko Morikawa,
Hideaki Nakagawa,
Katsuyuki Miura,
Masao Ishizaki,
Masaji Tabata,
Muneko Nishijo,
Kazuyo Higashiguchi,
Katsushi Yoshita,
Takiko Sagara,
Teruhiko Kido,
Yuchi Naruse,
Kôji Nogawa
Publication year - 1999
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.411
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , shift work , body mass index , incidence (geometry) , confounding , observational study , demography , logistic regression , cohort study , prospective cohort study , cohort , psychiatry , physics , sociology , optics
This study investigated the possibility of a relationship between blood pressure level and rotating 3-shift work in a prospective follow-up of workers in a zipper and aluminum sash factory in Japan.