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Sleep, immunity and shift workers: A review
- Source :
- Sleep Science, Sleep Science, Vol 9, Iss 3, Pp 164-168 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- To date, shift workers represent between 15% and 25% of the modern day workforce. Work time poses a great challenge to workers as it requires that they balance productivity and sleep time between shifts. As a result, these workers experience chronic sleep deprivation with increased fatigue and drowsiness due to this sleep deprivation. The impact of this kind of work on the immune system is not yet known. We conducted a literature review with the aim of evaluating articles on this specific type of work's effects on sleep and immunity.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Gerontology
Shift work
lcsh:BF1-990
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)
Medicine (miscellaneous)
lcsh:Consciousness. Cognition
Review Article
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
Work time
0302 clinical medicine
Immunity
medicine
Increased fatigue
business.industry
lcsh:BF309-499
Sleep in non-human animals
Sleep time
Sleep deprivation
lcsh:Psychology
030104 developmental biology
Workforce
medicine.symptom
Sleep
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19840063
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sleep Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5bf5e98cae6cabc6173b4091b8bde343
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.slsci.2016.10.007