Night shift work and cardiovascular diseases among employees in Germany: five-year follow-up of the Gutenberg Health Study

• Main Authors: Sylvia Jankowiak (Author), Karin Rossnagel (Author), Juliane Bauer (Author), Andreas Schulz (Author), Falk Liebers (Author), Ute Latza (Author), Karla Romero Starke (Author), Andreas Seidler (Author), Matthias Nübling (Author), Merle Riechmann-Wolf (Author), Stephan Letzel (Author), Philipp Wild (Author), Natalie Arnold (Author), Manfred Beutel (Author), Norbert Pfeiffer (Author), Karl Lackner (Author), Thomas Münzel (Author), Alicia Schulze (Author), Janice Hegewald (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine if there is an increased risk of incident cardiovascular diseases (CVD) resulting from cumulative night shift work in the German population-based Gutenberg Health Study (GHS). METHODS: We examined working participants of the GHS at baseline and after five yea...