Pre-Obesity Markers In Shift workers and non-shift workers

Conditions: circadiane verstoring
circadian disruption

Registration Number: NL-OMON56886

Lead Sponsor: Wageningen Universiteit

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Pending

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria for shift workers:
• Health care sector or industrial shift worker
• Employed or self-employed
• 21 years or older
• Working hours: >= 28 h/ week
• Shift work duration > 3 years and currently doing night shifts
• 4 or more rotating night shifts/month (night shift defined as a work schedule
that involves working at least 3 hours between 00:00 and 5:00), at least 2
consecutive nights/month

Inclusion criteria non-shift workers:
• Health care sector or industrial work
• Employed or self-employed
• 21 years or older
• Working hours: >= 28 h/ week
• No night shift or rotating shift work in the last 2 years
• No history of night shift or rotating shift work for more than 3 years

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria for shift workers and non-shift workers
• Pregnancy
• Lactation period
• BMI of 40 or above
• Present treatment of a disease e.g. cancer radio- or chemotherapy
• Chronic diseases if in an ongoing therapy but not after a remission (renal
failure, active hepatitis, cirrhosis, myocardial infarction, chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease and cancer)
• Immunodeficiency syndrome, any auto-immune or auto-inflammatory diseases
(e.g., type-1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis) and
acute episodes of atopic diseases (atopic dermatitis, asthma, type 1 allergies
such as hay fever)
• Bariatric surgery
• Antibiotics in the last month
• Participation in another human trial
• No literacy in Dutch (not able to speak and read Dutch)