24-Hour heart rate variability in shift workers: Impact of shift schedule

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 32-38

  Van Amelsvoort, Ludovic G P M ^a,b   Schouten, Evert G ^b   Maan, Arie C ^c   Swenne, Kees A ^c   Kok, Frans J ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; Shift work; Work schedules

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP; SYMPATHETIC TONE; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 0035076117     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.43.32     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Cardiovascular diseases and the work environment. A critical review of the epidemiologic literature on nonchemical factors
2. Prospective study of shift work and risk of coronary heart disease in women
3. Shiftwork and myocardial infarction: A case-control study
4. Shift work, occupation and coronary heart disease over 6 years of follow-up in the Helsinki Heart Study
5. Nocturnal eating and serum cholesterol of three-shift workers
6. Cardiovascular neural regulation explored in the frequency domain
7. Heart rate and heart rate variability as indexes of sympathovagal balance
8. Occupational determinants of heart rate variability
9. Impact of reduced heart rate variability on risk for cardiac events. The Framingham Heart Study
10. Heart rate variability from short electrocardiographic recordings predicts mortality from all causes in middle-aged and elderly men. The Zutphen Study
11. Power-law relationship of heart rate variability as a predictor of mortality in the elderly
12. Circadian rhytms of frequency domain measures of heart rate variability in healthy subjects and patients with coronary artery disease
13. Continuous 24-hour assessment of the neural regulation of systemic arterial pressure and RR variabilities in ambulant subjects
14. Sympathetic activity as the cause of the morning increase in cardiac events. A likely culprit, but the evidence remains circumstantial
15. Advancing versus delaying shift systems
16. Circadian heart rate variability rhythm in shift workers
17. A short questionnaire for the measurement of habitual physical activity in epidemiological studies
18. Advanced arrhythmia interpretation by batch driven postprocessing of QRS annotations and ST values as obtained with a commercial Holter analyzer
19. Heart rate and heart rate variability as indexes of sympathovagal balance
20. Physical activity influences heart rate variability and very-low-freuqency components in Holter electrocardiograms
21. Advancing versus delaying shift systems
22. Is there an optimal sleep-wake pattern in shift work?
23. Impact of shift work on cardiovascular functions in a 10-year follow-up study
24. Cardiovascular dysfunction due to shift work