Health disorders of shift workers

A Knutsson - Occupational medicine, 2003 - academic.oup.com
The effects of shift work on physiological function through disruption of circadian rhythms
are well described. However, shift work can also be associated with specific pathological …

[HTML][HTML] Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data

…, M Joensuu, M Jokela, F Kittel, A Knutsson… - The lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Background Published work assessing psychosocial stress (job strain) as a risk factor for
coronary heart disease is inconsistent and subject to publication bias and reverse causation …

Is there an association between shift work and having a metabolic syndrome? Results from a population based study of 27 485 people

B Karlsson, A Knutsson, B Lindahl - Occupational and environmental …, 2001 - oem.bmj.com
OBJECTIVES To explore how metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) differ
between shift workers and day workers in a defined population. Shift work has been …

Shift work, risk factors and cardiovascular disease

H Bøggild, A Knutsson - Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 1999 - JSTOR
The literature on shift work, morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease, and changes
in traditional risk factors is reviewed. Seventeen studies have dealt with shift work and …

Sleep disturbances, work stress and work hours: a cross-sectional study

T Åkerstedt, A Knutsson, P Westerholm… - Journal of …, 2002 - Elsevier
Objective: The study examined the multivariate relationship between disturbed sleep and
different work-related and background/life style factors. Methods: 5720 healthy employed men …

[HTML][HTML] Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 …

…, IL Houtman, KH Jöckel, F Kittel, A Knutsson… - The lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Long working hours might increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, but
prospective evidence is scarce, imprecise, and mostly limited to coronary heart disease. We …

Increased risk of ischaemic heart disease in shift workers

A Knutsson, BG Jonsson, T Akerstedt, K Orth-Gomer - The Lancet, 1986 - Elsevier
Occupational Health Page 1 89 manufacturers may abandon the present voluntary fortification
of breakfast cereals, and the effect of such a move on thiamine status in our subjects …

[HTML][HTML] Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120 813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA …

…, E Fransson, M Goldberg, A Knutsson… - The Lancet Public …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Although overweight and obesity have been studied in relation to individual
cardiometabolic diseases, their association with risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity is poorly …

Job strain as a risk factor for clinical depression: systematic review and meta-analysis with additional individual participant data

…, N Dragano, M Hamer, M Jokela, A Knutsson… - Psychological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundAdverse psychosocial working environments characterized by job strain (the
combination of high demands and low control at work) are associated with an increased risk of …

Metabolic disturbances in male workers with rotating three-shift work. Results of the WOLF study

BH Karlsson, AK Knutsson, BO Lindahl… - International archives of …, 2003 - Springer
Objectives The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between
important metabolic risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) and type 2 diabetes in shift …