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Shiftwork and mortality from ischaemic heart disease.

Roseanne McNamee, K. Binks, Stephanie Jones, Dorothy L. Faulkner, A. J. M. Slovak, Nicola Cherry

Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 1996 · 72 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

Shift work did not increase the risk of death from ischaemic heart disease in this study. Those workers with poorer cardiovascular health may be under represented in groups with longer shift work experience because of health related selection out of shift work.

References

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Low mortality rates in industrial cohort studies due to selection for work and survival in the industry.

A J Fox, P F Collier · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · 1976 · 466 citations · Full text

Mortality Studies, Industrial Cohort Studies, Low Mortality Rates +18

INCREASED RISK OF ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE IN SHIFT WORKERS

Anders Knutsson, BjornG. Jonsson, Torbjörn Åkerstedt et al. · The Lancet · 1986 · 455 citations

Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Occupational Disorder +4

Research Methods in Occupational Epidemiology

Fiona Williams, O L Lloyd · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · 1990 · 332 citations · Full text

Occupational Medicine, Occupational Disorder, Injury Prevention +7

Myocardial infarction risk and psychosocial work environment: An analysis of the male Swedish working force

Lars Alfredsson, Robert Karasek, Töres Theorell · Social Science & Medicine · 1982 · 300 citations

Family Medicine, Psychosocial Work Environment, Cardiovascular Disease +8

Type of Occupation and Near-Future Hospitalization for Myocardial Infarction and Some Other Diagnoses

Lars Alfredsson, Curt-Lennart Spetz, Töres Theorell · International Journal of Epidemiology · 1985 · 253 citations

Relative 'Hospitalization, Other Diagnoses, Coronary Artery Disease +22