Association of overtime work with cellular immune markers among healthy daytime white-collar employees

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 56-64

  Nakata, Akinori ^a   Takahashi, Masaya ^b   Irie, Masahiro ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immune system; Natural killer cell; Occupational health; Overtime work; Work condition

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN;

CELL ORGANELLE; HEALTH RISK; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LINEARITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TOXICITY; TUMOR; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; JAPANESE; JOB SATISFACTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MARRIAGE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP TIME;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; JAPAN; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

JAPAN;

EID: 84855474250     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: 1795990X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3183     Document Type: Article

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