Effect of accumulated night work during the working lifetime, on subjective health and sleep in monozygotic twins

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-48

  Ingre, Michael ^a,b   Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^a,c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Health; Lifetime accumulated night work; Sleep; Twins

Indexed keywords

AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NIGHT WORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; TIME; TWIN DISCORDANCE; WAKEFULNESS; WORK CAPACITY;

AGED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 1642328193     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2004.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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