Overtime work, insufficient sleep, and risk of non-fatal acute myocardial infarction in Japanese men
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Overtime work, insufficient sleep, and risk of non-fatal acute myocardial infarction in Japanese men.
OBJECTIVES To examine the relation between working hours and hours of sleep and the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), with special reference to the joint effect of these two factors. METHOD Case-control study in Japan. Cases were 260 men aged 40-79 admitted to hospitals with AMI during 1996-8. Controls were 445 men free from AMI matched for age and residence who were recruited from t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.59.7.447