Association of shift work with incident dementia: a community-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Some observational studies had found that shift work would increase risks of metabolic disorders, cancers, and cardiovascular diseases, but there was no homogeneous evidence of such an association between shift work and incident dementia. This study aimed to investigate whether shift work would increase the risk of dementia in a general population.

Methods

One hundred seventy thousand seven hundred twenty-two employed participants without cognitive impairment or dementia at baseline recruited between 2006 and 2010 were selected from the UK Biobank cohort study. Follow-up occurred through June 2021. Shift work status at baseline was self-reported by participants and they were categorized as non-shift workers or shift workers. Among shift workers, participants were

SUBMITTER: Liao H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9753386 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature