ArticleSleep health2024
Later circadian timing and increased sleep timing variability are associated with attenuations in overnight blood pressure dipping among chronic nightshift workers.
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- Cardiovascular and autonomic modulation during nighttime rest under real-world conditions in miners exposed to chronic intermittent hypoxia.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Influence of circadian alignment and sleep timing variability on sex-specific inflammatory markers in healthy adults.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025Article
- Circadian Alignment, Cardiometabolic Disease, and Sex-Specific Differences in Adults With Overweight/Obesity.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2025Article
- Bedtime regularization as a potential adjunct therapy for hypertension: a proof-of-concept study.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- A perspective on the Festschrift of Charles A. Czeisler, PhD MD.Sleep health · 2024Article
- Pressure Building Against the Clock: The Impact of Circadian Misalignment on Blood Pressure.Current hypertension reports · 2024Review
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Abstract
objectiveDetermine relationships between overnight blood pressure, circadian phase, and sleep variability among dayshift and chronic nightshift nurses.
methodsTwenty participants working dayshift (n = 10) or nightshift (n = 10) schedules participated in a 7-day cross-sectional study. Participants underwent an evening in-laboratory melatonin assessment and wore ambulatory blood pressure devices to assess 24-hour blood pressure patterns. Overnight blood pressure dipping was calculated from sleeping/waking systolic blood pressure ratio and salivary dim-light melatonin onset determined circadian phase. Sleep variability was assessed using the standard deviation of 7-day sleep onset.
resultsNightshift workers had later circadian phase, greater sleep onset variability, and an attenuated overnight blood pressure dipping pattern. Later circadian phase was associated with attenuated dipping patterns and sleep onset variability was negatively correlated with blood pressure dipping magnitude in nightshift, but not dayshift workers.
conclusionsChronic circadian disruption via higher sleep onset variability among nightshift workers may contribute to attenuated blood pressure dipping and cardiovascular risk in this population.
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