INCREASED RISK OF ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE IN SHIFT WORKERS

The Lancet

Volumn 328, Issue 8498, 1986, Pages 89-92

  Knutsson, Anders ^a   Jonsson, BjornG ^b   Akerstedt, Torbjorn ^a   Orth Gomer, Kristina ^a  

^a National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b University College   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; HEART; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SHIFT WORKER;

ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIVORCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PAPER; RISK; SMOKING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; WORK; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 0022655459     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(86)91619-3     Document Type: Article

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