Total and cause-specific mortality of U.S. nurses working rotating night shifts

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 241-252

  Gu, Fangyi ^a   Han, Jiali ^b,c,f   Laden, Francine ^c   Pan, An ^g   Caporaso, Neil E ^a   Stampfer, Meir J ^b,c   Kawachi, Ichiro ^c   Rexrode, Kathryn M ^c   Willett, Walter C ^c   Hankinson, Susan E ^b,e   Speizer, Frank E ^b   Schernhammer, Eva S ^b,c,d,h  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^h LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JOB STRESS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NIGHT WORK; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NURSE; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NURSES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 84926136412     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: 18732607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.10.018     Document Type: Article

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