madman
Super Moderator
CONCLUSION
Non-standard shift workers, including emergency first responders, health care professionals, airline pilots, and plant or manufacturing operators, comprise nearly 20% of the U.S. workforce and fill indispensable roles in society.1 Shift work exposure has been linked to poor sleep quality and insomnia, contributing to increased workplace accidents, employee absenteeism, and billions of dollars of lost productivity annually. Current evidence supports an increased risk of developing DM, hypertension, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, peptic ulcer disease, and depression in shift workers, although future systematic studies controlling for confounding variables are needed to more strongly establish these relationships. Non-standard shift workers who experience SWSD or report poor sleep quality are also at increased risk of developing urologic issues including hypogonadal symptoms, male subfertility or infertility, LUTS, and prostate cancer. Given these findings, it may be beneficial for health care providers to screen for shift work status and identify his unique subgroup of patients who are at increased risk of developing chronic medical and urologic conditions. Current therapeutic strategies for treating excessive sleepiness include melatonin, stimulants, and planned naps while strategies for treating insomnia include sedative hypnotics and timed light exposure. Since a significant proportion of shift workers experience SWSD and a large majority report fatigue during shifts, therapeutic strategies for SWSD represent an area of future research capable of profound impact on improving organizational productivity, employee safety, and overall health of non-standard shift workers.
Non-standard shift workers, including emergency first responders, health care professionals, airline pilots, and plant or manufacturing operators, comprise nearly 20% of the U.S. workforce and fill indispensable roles in society.1 Shift work exposure has been linked to poor sleep quality and insomnia, contributing to increased workplace accidents, employee absenteeism, and billions of dollars of lost productivity annually. Current evidence supports an increased risk of developing DM, hypertension, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, peptic ulcer disease, and depression in shift workers, although future systematic studies controlling for confounding variables are needed to more strongly establish these relationships. Non-standard shift workers who experience SWSD or report poor sleep quality are also at increased risk of developing urologic issues including hypogonadal symptoms, male subfertility or infertility, LUTS, and prostate cancer. Given these findings, it may be beneficial for health care providers to screen for shift work status and identify his unique subgroup of patients who are at increased risk of developing chronic medical and urologic conditions. Current therapeutic strategies for treating excessive sleepiness include melatonin, stimulants, and planned naps while strategies for treating insomnia include sedative hypnotics and timed light exposure. Since a significant proportion of shift workers experience SWSD and a large majority report fatigue during shifts, therapeutic strategies for SWSD represent an area of future research capable of profound impact on improving organizational productivity, employee safety, and overall health of non-standard shift workers.
