Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Effects of sleep deprivation

NIOSH research on sleep deprivation has shown that 30% of workers are sleep deprived.  Sleep deprivation due to shift work was linked to adverse reproductive outcomes in Nurses. 

Police officers working night shifts had greater risks of injury and metabolic syndrome than did day shift workers. Metabolic syndrome comprises a group of risk factors associated with coronary arteryt disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke.

For other jobs such as trucking manufacturing and white collar workers reduced sleep was linked to depression, injury and reduced ability of the natural killer cells to defend against cancer and viruses.

In this less than five minute video clip, a news anchor goes through 30 plus hours of sleep deprivation.  The footage is from News 2 in Charleston , NC.

 Driver impairment is a significant problem associated with sleep impairment noted in this video with Dr. Christopher Nolte on the Dr. Bob talk show.



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