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Orthostatic symptoms, blood pressure and working postures of factory and service workers over an observed workday
Orthostatic symptoms, blood pressure and working postures of factory and service workers over an observed workday
- Source :
- Applied Ergonomics. 39:729-736
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2008.
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Abstract
- North American workers usually stand while working, and prolonged standing is associated with discomfort and cardiovascular problems. Moving may alleviate the problems, but optimum mobility is unknown. The effects of variations in mobility were explored among (1) 34 health care workers whose symptoms of orthostatic intolerance (OI) were recorded after work; (2) 45 factory and laundry workers. Postures were observed over a workday and blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) of both groups were recorded before and after work. Among health care workers, 65% manifested OI symptoms. In a multiple logistic regression, presence of ⩾1 symptom of OI was associated with static postures and being female (p=0.001). More static standing was associated with a larger drop in BP (p=0.04) in both populations. The results suggest that more static standing postures are associated with OI and musculoskeletal symptoms and with a subclinical drop in BP.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Work
medicine.medical_specialty
Posture
Orthostatic intolerance
Hemodynamics
Blood Pressure
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Logistic regression
Hypotension, Orthostatic
Orthostatic vital signs
Heart Rate
Heart rate
Humans
Medicine
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Subclinical infection
Chi-Square Distribution
business.industry
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Service worker
Logistic Models
Blood pressure
Lower Extremity
Physical therapy
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00036870
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Ergonomics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cbe04ed8a010253a2c2cc6f71e5037a5
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2007.11.004