Rotating Night Shift Work and Healthy Aging After 24 Years of Follow-up in the Nurses' Health Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Rotating night shift work is associated with higher mortality. Whether it is also associated with overall health among those who survive to older ages remains unclear.

Objective

To examine whether rotating night shift work is associated with healthy aging after 24 years of follow-up in the Nurses' Health Study, a cohort study among registered female nurses.

Design, setting, and participants

For this cohort study, a composite healthy aging phenotype was ascertained among 46 318 participants who were aged 46 to 68 years and free of major chronic diseases in 1988 when the history of night shift work was assessed. In a secondary analysis in which cognitive function decline was considered in the healthy aging definition, 14 273 nurses were involved. Data were an

SUBMITTER: Shi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9069254 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature