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As many as 20 percent of workers in industrialized nations are shift workers — in other words, people who work either at night or on rotating shifts.¹ Shift-work sleep disorder, defined as a primary complaint of insomnia or excessive sleepiness temporally associated with a work period that occurs during the habitual sleep phase,² has been diagnosed in as many as 10 percent of shift workers.³ Shift workers overall appear to be at increased risk for peptic ulcer disease, coronary heart disease, insulin resistance, and the metabolic syndrome,^4,5 as well as for sleep deprivation, depression, sleepiness-related accidents, and curtailed family and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

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