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This study investigated the association between sleep disturbances and blood pressure in rotating shiftworkers. Three hundred and seventy-one oil refinery and aluminum factory shiftworkers were investigted by a sociomedical questionnaire and a detailed sleep questionnaire. Shiftworkers with sleep disturbances (51/371) had significantly higher systolic and diastolic BP and a significantly higher incidence of hypertension than shiftworkers who did not complain about sleep, and than dayworkers with sleep disturbances, or day workers who did not have sleep disturbances. Age-related adrenomedullary activation during disturbed diurnal sleep after night shifts is proposed as an explanation for these findings.
This study was supported by the Committee for Research and Prevention in Occupational Safety and Health, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, headed by S. Amir.
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Lavie, P. (1991). Association Between Sleep Disturbances and Blood Pressure in Shiftworkers. In: Peter, J.H., Penzel, T., Podszus, T., von Wichert, P. (eds) Sleep and Health Risk. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76034-1_34
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