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Ecological and physiological aspects of transit work
1Institute of Physiology, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk.
Arctic Medical Research
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
The organism of transit workers is overloaded after repeated translocation on long distances. Power work capacity (PWC), biological rhythms and psycho-emotional tension were studied in 240 transit workers flying to work from the Ukraine to West Siberia. Decreased PWC, disturbed diurnal rhythm, and increased emotional tension were found to be related to the increase in transit work service. The role of seasonal differences and functional activity, reflected in increased sympathetic activity in summer and parasympathetic in winter, was found to be significant.