Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Restless Legs Syndrome in shift workers: A cross sectional study on male assembly workers. | Journal of Circadian Rhythms BioMed Central Research Restless Legs Syndrome in shift workers A cross sectional study on male assembly workers Akbar Sharifian1 Marjan Firoozeh 1 Gholamreza Pouryaghoub1 Mehran Shahryari1 Mohsen Rahimi2 Mohammad Hesamian2 and Ali Fardi2 Open Access Address Department of Occupational Medicine Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran and 2HSE Department SAIPA automobile manufacturing company Tehran Iran Email Akbar Sharifian - Sharifians@ Marjan Firoozeh - mfiroozeh@ Gholamreza Pouryaghoub - pourya@ Mehran Shahryari - mshahryari@ Mohsen Rahimi - mrahimi38@ Mohammad Hesamian - elihesamian@ Ali Fardi - fardi@ Corresponding author Published 14 September 2009 Received 16 March 2009 _ __-mno . - .A Iioz mn noi 1 n Accepted 14 September 2009 Journal of Circadian Rhythms 2009 7 12 doi l740-339l-7-l2 This article is available from http content 7 l l2 2009 Sharifian et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Restless Legs Syndrome RLS is a common neurological movement disorder characterized by symptoms that follow a circadian pattern. Night and rotating shift work schedules exert adverse effects on functions of the human body by disturbing circadian rhythms and they are known to cause sleep disturbances and insomnia. In this paper we investigate the possible association between shift work and RLS. Methods This cross sectional study was conducted in an automobile manufacturing factory in Tehran Iran. A total of 780 male assembly workers were recruited in three groups each with 260 workers workers on a permanent morning shift A and two different
