Long Work Hours and Adiposity Among Police Officers in a US Northeast City

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• Alternative Title:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Gu, Ja K. ; Charles, Luenda E. ; Burchfiel, Cecil M. ; Fekedulegn, Desta ; Sarkisian, Khachatur ; Andrew, Michael E. ; Ma, Claudia ; Violanti, John M.
• Description:
  Objective
  
  To investigate the associations between long work hours and adiposity measures in police officers.
  
  Methods
  
  Participants included 408 officers from the Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occupational Police Stress study who were examined between 2004 and 2009. Total work hours were abstracted from payroll records and questionnaires. Analysis of variance and covariance models were used.
  
  Results
  
  Among male officers who worked the midnight shift, mean values of waist circumference and body mass index increased with longer work hours after adjustment for age, physical activity, energy intake, sleep duration, smoking status, police rank, activities after work (eg, child/family care, sports), and household income. Adiposity measures were not associated with work hours among women on any shift.
  
  Conclusion
  
  Working longer hours was significantly associated with larger waist circumferences and higher body mass index among male police officers working the midnight shift.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adiposity Adult Body Mass Index Chi-Square Distribution Female Humans Law Enforcement Male Middle Aged Surveys And Questionnaires Time Factors Urban Population Waist Circumference Work Schedule Tolerance

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• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 54(11):1374-1381.
• Pubmed ID:
  23013913
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4653812
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  54
• Issue:
  11
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4440681d69c6db47729b6d0e860b32781a27eda279a1cc2d11e04f8dc944603d
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