Marit Skogstad, Sarah Alsaedi, Per Anton Sirnes, Asgeir Mamen, Øivind Skare, Elisabeth Goffeng, Lars Ole Goffeng, Dagfinn Matre, Hans Christian Dalsbotten Aass, Erika Zardin Brinchmann
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Abstract
Objective: This cross-sectional study assesses cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in industrial rotating night-shift and day workers.
Methods: We examined 27 day workers, 40 night-shift workers with high night load, and 34 night-shift workers with low night loads. We assessed sleep, blood pressure, pulse wave velocity, carotid intima-media thickness, maximal oxygen uptake ( ), glycosylated hemoglobin, lipids, focusing on inflammatory markers, and adipokines.
Results: High-load night-shift workers had higher inflammation and lower adiponectin level compared with other shift workers and day workers. Night shifts of 8 and 12 hours shortened sleep. The number of night shifts was positively associated with inflammatory markers and negatively associated with adiponectin.
Conclusions: Night-shift work is associated with CVD risk factors. Shift schedules with fewer night shifts and longer recovery periods could mitigate it.