@ARTICLE{Attarchi, author = {Golabadi, Majid and Dehghan, Faezeh and Safakhah, Farnaz and Attarchi, Mir Saeed and }, title = {Assessment of effect of shift work on blood pressure in workers of a rubber manufacturing company}, volume = {18}, number = {91}, abstract ={  Background : Various factors such as occupational and environmental risk factors affect blood pressure. Nowadays, shift work is a common work schedule. Studies on effect of shift work on hypertension showed different results. We studied the effect of shift work on hypertension and pre-hypertension among workers in a rubber manufacturing company.   Methods : In a cross-sectional study, 265 workers studied. Workers divided to shift workers and day workers, their systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP&DBP) were measured by standard method. Then mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure and prevalence of hypertension and pre-hypertension were compared between two groups. Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the correlation between hypertension and shift work. Chi square, t-test and logistic regression were used for statistical analysis.   Results : There were no statistically significant differences between groups in the variables of age, BMI, employment duration, smoking and other confounding factors (p>0.05). The mean values of SBP and DBP and prevalence of pre-hypertension and hypertension was significantly more in shift workers than day workers (p }, URL = {http://rjms.iums.ac.ir/article-1-2024-en.html}, eprint = {http://rjms.iums.ac.ir/article-1-2024-en.pdf}, journal = {Razi Journal of Medical Sciences}, doi = {}, year = {2012} }