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Shift work
Loef, B.
2020
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Loef, B. (2020). Shift work: Health, lifestyle, and immunological effects.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 General introduction 7
Chapter 2 Klokwerk+ study protocol: An observational study to the effects of night-shift work on body weight and infection susceptibility and the mechanisms underlying these health effects
21
Part I Shift work and health
Chapter 3 The association between exposure to different aspects of shift work and metabolic risk factors in health care workers, and the role of chronotype
45
Chapter 4 Shift work and respiratory infections in health-care workers 67 Part II Mechanisms linking shift work to health: lifestyle and
immunological effects
Chapter 5 Shift work, sleep disturbances and social jetlag in healthcare workers
89
Chapter 6 Non-occupational physical activity levels of shift workers compared with non-shift workers
111
Chapter 7 Objectively measured physical activity of hospital shift workers
131
Chapter 8 Shift work and its relation with meal and snack patterns among healthcare workers
151
Chapter 9 Immunological effects of shift work in healthcare workers 171 Chapter 10 The mediating role of sleep, physical activity, and diet in the
association between shift work and respiratory infections
203
Chapter 11 General discussion 223
Appendices Summary 256
Samenvatting 261
About the author 267
List of publications 268
Dankwoord 270
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