Obesity and other risk factors: the National Survey of U.S. Long-Haul Truck Driver Health and Injury

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• Personal Author:
  Birdsey J ; Chen GX ; Hitchcock EM ; Lincoln, Jennifer E. ; Nakata A ; Robinson CF ; Sieber, W. Karl ; Sweeney, Marie H.
• Description:
  Background: Drivers of heavy and tractor-trailer trucks accounted for 56% of all production and nonsupervisory employees in the truck transportation industry in 2011. There are limited data for illness and injury in long-haul truck drivers, which prompted a targeted national survey. Methods: Interviewers collected data during 2010 from 1,670 long-haul truck drivers at 32 truck stops across the 48 contiguous United States that were used to compute prevalence estimates for self-reported health conditions and risk factors. Results: Obesity (69% vs. 31%, P < 0.01) and current smoking (51% vs. 19%, P < 0.01) were twice as prevalent in long-haul truck drivers as in the 2010 U.S. adult working population. Sixty-one percent reported having two or more of the risk factors: hypertension, obesity, smoking, high cholesterol, no physical activity, 6 or fewer hours of sleep per 24-hr period. Conclusion: Survey findings suggest a need for targeted interventions and continued surveillance for long-haul truck drivers. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Body Weight
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Cardiovascular System
  • Occupational Health
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • Safety
  • Sleep
  • Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
  • Smokers
  More +
• Keywords:
  • Transportation
  • Transportation-industry
  • Transportation-workers
  • Divers
  • Truck-drivers
  • Trucking
  • Health-surveys
  • Body-weight
  • Body-burden
  • Weight-factors
  More +
• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DSR - Division of Safety Research ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  57
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043603
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2014 Jun; 57(6):615-626
• Contact Point Address:
  W. Karl Sieber, PhD, MS, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health M.S. R-17, 4476 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  wsieber@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195459/cdc_195459_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 642.05 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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