Open AccessShift work and age as interactive predictors of body mass index among offshore workers
Author(s) -
Katharine R. Parkes
Publication year - 2002
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.648
Subject(s) - body mass index , shift work , demography , confounding , medicine , multilevel model , gerontology , psychology , statistics , mathematics , psychiatry , sociology
This study investigated shift pattern (day shifts versus day-night rotation) and its interactions with age, and with years of shiftwork exposure, as predictors of body mass index (BMI).