Palermo P, Rosati M V, Ciarrocca M, Nicassio P, Piccoli F, Cerratti D, Anzani M F, Tomei G, Perugi F, Monti C, Palitti T, Tomao E, Caciari T, Tomei F
Cattedra e Scuola di Specializzazione in Medicina del Lavoro, "Sapienza" Università di Roma.
G Ital Med Lav Ergon. 2007 Jul-Sep;29(3 Suppl):456-8.
The aim of the study is to evaluate whether occupational exposure to night work could cause alterations in the levels of plasmatic cortisol. The interest toward this argument arises form several studies in scientific literature referring the presence of an alteration in the synthesis and release of cortisol in workers exposed to night work. We studied a population of workers employed in night security service and monitoring service of alarm systems in different museums compared to a control group not performing shift-work and/or night work. The exposed and control subjects were compared by age, length of service, smoking habit (n. cigarettes per day), habitual consumption of alcoholic drinks (n. glass of wine/beer per day). We evaluated the levels of plasmatic cortisol on 50 workers exposed to night work, all males of whom 30 smokers and 20 non-smokers and on 50 controls of whom 30 smokers and 20 non-smokers.
本研究的目的是评估职业性接触夜班工作是否会导致血浆皮质醇水平的改变。对这一论点的关注源于科学文献中的几项研究，这些研究指出，从事夜班工作的工人皮质醇的合成和释放存在改变。我们研究了一群从事不同博物馆夜间安保服务和警报系统监控服务的工人，并与一个不从事轮班工作和/或夜班工作的对照组进行了比较。通过年龄、服务年限、吸烟习惯（每天吸烟支数）、酒精饮料的习惯性消费量（每天葡萄酒/啤酒杯数）对暴露组和对照组进行比较。我们评估了50名从事夜班工作的工人的血浆皮质醇水平，所有男性中30名吸烟者和20名非吸烟者，以及50名对照组人员，其中30名吸烟者和20名非吸烟者。
