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Shift work sleep disorder (SWSD) is a circadian rhythm sleep disorder characterized by insomnia, excessive sleepiness, or both affecting people whose work hours overlap with the typical sleep period. Insomnia can be the difficulty to fall asleep or to wake up before the individual has slept enough. [ 1 ]
It's 4 a.m. at the Lakeview Restaurant, a 24-hour diner in Toronto, and floor manager Peter Avenins is hard at work. His body humming along despite the late hour.For four years, and with various ...
Worker Health Charts provides a distribution of shift work by industry from 2015 NHIS data. [65] According to data from the National Health Interview Survey and the Occupational Health Supplement, 27% of all U.S. workers in 2015 worked an alternative shift (not a regular day shift) and 7% frequently worked a night shift. Prevalence rates were ...
Nocturnists differ from on-call doctors in that they work exclusively at night, rather than being on-call and also working daytime shifts. [3] As of 2020 [update] , about half of teaching hospitals in the United States staff nocturnists, [ 1 ] and a 2018 study reporting 76.1% of adults-only hospitals, 27.6% of children-only hospitals, and 68.2% ...
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The evidence for harm to people who are deprived of sleep, or work irregular hours, is robust. Research from Europe and the United States on nonstandard work hours and sleep deprivation found that late-hour workers are subject to higher risks of gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, miscarriage, preterm birth, and low birth weight of their newborns.
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