Long commuting time, extensive overtime, and sympathodominant state assessed in terms of short-term heart rate variability among male white- collar workers in the tokyo megalopolis

Industrial Health

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 209-217

  Kageyama, Takayuki ^a   Nishikido, Noriko ^b   Kobayashi, Toshio ^c   Kurokawa, Yoshika ^d   Kaneko, Tetsuya ^e   Kabuto, Michinori ^d  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular dysfunction; Chronic stress; Commuting time; Heart rate variability; Overtime; Sympathodominant state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REST; SLEEP; STANDING; STRESS; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; URBAN AREA; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 0031904412     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.36.209     Document Type: Article

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