{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"submitter":["Zhou W"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>While high temperatures are linked to poor sleep, few studies considered heat stress, especially among outdoor workers.<h4>Objective</h4>We investigated associations between heat stress and sleep health among farmers.<h4>Methods</h4>The study included 8,203 male participants from Iowa (78%) and North Carolina (NC, 22%), enrolled in the Agricultural Health Study (2013-2015), who were actively farming when data were collected. Survey data on sleep, demographics and covariates were linked to daily wet bulb globe temperatures (WBGT) from May 2013-September 2015. We calculated absolute heat stress by averaging WBGT over 2, 5, and 7 days before the interview. Relative heat stress (i.e., the difference between absolute heat stress and the 92.5th percentile of WBGT) was also cal"],"journal":["medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences"],"pagination":["2025.07.28.25332331"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12324656"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Heat Stress in relation to Sleep Health among Farmers."],"pmcid":["PMC12324656"],"pubmed_authors":["Parks CG","Jackson CL","Ogbenna BT","Zhou W","Sandler DP","Gaston SA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Heat Stress in relation to Sleep Health among Farmers.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>While high temperatures are linked to poor sleep, few studies considered heat stress, especially among outdoor workers.<h4>Objective</h4>We investigated associations between heat stress and sleep health among farmers.<h4>Methods</h4>The study included 8,203 male participants from Iowa (78%) and North Carolina (NC, 22%), enrolled in the Agricultural Health Study (2013-2015), who were actively farming when data were collected. Survey data on sleep, demographics and covariates were linked to daily wet bulb globe temperatures (WBGT) from May 2013-September 2015. We calculated absolute heat stress by averaging WBGT over 2, 5, and 7 days before the interview. Relative heat stress (i.e., the difference between absolute heat stress and the 92.5th percentile of WBGT) was also cal","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Jul","modification":"2026-04-07T14:20:11.636Z","creation":"2026-04-07T14:01:10.173Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12324656","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40766143"],"doi":["10.1101/2025.07.28.25332331"]}}