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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Sleep Sci 2022; 15(S 02): 380-387
DOI: 10.5935/1984-0063.20210013
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Work hours as a risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infections: cardiometabolic and sleep characteristics in rotating shift workers

Raiza Aranha Nascimento
1   Belo Horizonte City Hall, Endocrinologist - Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil.
,
Virgínia Capistrano Fajardo
2   Sciences Applied to Adult Health Care Postgraduate Program, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte.
,
Luiz Antônio Alves Menezes Junior
3   Postgraduate Program in Health and Nutrition, Federal of University Ouro Preto - Ouro Preto - Minas Gerais - Brazil.
,
Pedro Henrique Marques Mendonça
4   Postgraduate Program in Infectology and Tropical Medicine, Federal of University Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil.
,
Maria Cristina Veiga Aranha Nascimento
5   Federal of University Ouro Preto, School of Medicine - Ouro Preto - Minas Gerais - Brazil.
,
Pedro Marques Oliveira Tristão
6   Belo Horizonte City Hall, Cardiologist - Ouro Preto - Minas Gerais - Brazil.
,
Fernando Luiz Pereira Oliveira
7   Federal of University Ouro Preto, Institute of Exact and Biological Sciences - Ouro Preto - Minas Gerais - Brazil.
,
Raimundo Marques Nascimento Neto
5   Federal of University Ouro Preto, School of Medicine - Ouro Preto - Minas Gerais - Brazil.
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ABSTRACT

Objective: This study aims to describe the health characteristics of rotating shift mining workers that may be related to a worse course scenario for COVID-19, according to literature data.

Methods: Is a cross-sectional from three studies with 1478 shift workers. Social, demographic, clinical, and biochemical variables were analyzed. Risk factors for COVID-19 analyzed: hyperglycemia, altered blood pressure, dyslipidemia, hypovitaminosis D, obesity, presence of pre-existing cardiovascular diseases, and smokers.

Results: Evaluating the grouped risk factors for an unfavorable evolution of COVID-19 most workers (91.0%) presented at least one risk factor.

Discussion: With coronavirus in pandemic circulation, we noticed that mineworkers are in a vulnerable position. Their exposure to occupational risk factors, to the shift system, which directly affects sleep and negatively influences immunity, added to the conditions of favorable transmissibility by the flow of people from the mines leads us to believe in their greater susceptibility to acquiring the most serious forms of the disease.

Keywords:

Coronavirus Infections - Betacoronavirus - Sleep Deprivation - Circadian Rhythm - Mining


Publication History

Received: 08 March 2021

Accepted: 19 April 2021

Article published online:
01 December 2023

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