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Luciana da Conceição Antunes1, Manoela Neves da Jornada, Letícia Ramalho
1School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. lc-antunes@hotmail.com
Objective:
Correlate shift work with body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, chronotype and depressive symptoms.
Subjects And Methods:
This study comprising 14 shift workers and 13 day workers. Subjects were workers from the health area aged 25 to 60 years. Minor psychiatric disorders were accessed by Self Report Questionnaire (SRQ-20) and depressive symptoms by Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Chronotype was accessed using Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ). Anthropometric measures were taken.
Results:
Shift workers presented higher BMI (P = 0.03) and waist circumference (P = 0.004) than day workers. Years on shift work were significantly correlated to waist circumference (r = 0.43; P = 0.03) and age (r = 0.47; P = 0.02). Shift work was not correlated with depressive symptoms and chronotype.
Conclusion:
These results may suggest a role played by shift work on the development and/or the early clinic manifestations of metabolic disturbances, becoming a risk factor to metabolic syndrome.
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