Research Article Associations of Short Sleep and Shift Work Status with Hypertension among Black and White

Copyright © 2015 Mirnova E. Cëıde et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective.The purpose of this study was to investigate whether short sleepers (<6 hrs) whoworked the non-day-shift were at greater likelihood of reporting hypertension and if these associations varied by individuals ’ ethnicity.Methods. Analysis was based on the 2010National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). A total of 59,199 American adults provided valid data for the present analyses (mean age = 46.2 ± 17.7 years; 51.5 % were female). Respondents provided work schedule and estimated habitual sleep durations as well as self-report of chronic conditions. Results. Of the sample, 30.8 % reported a diagnosis of hypertension, 79.1 % reported daytime shift work, 11.0 % reported rotating shiftwork, and 4.0 % reported night shiftwork. Logistic regression analysis showed that shiftworkwas significantly associated with hypertension among Blacks [OR = 1.35, CI: 1.06–1.72