The influence of night shift work on circadian heart-rate rhythm was examined in nurses engaged in shift work using a Holter electrocardiogram, continuously measured for two weeks, and cosine periodic regression analysis. We enrolled 11 nurses who were engaged in a two-shift system. The R value in the cosine regression curve of heart-rate rhythm (concordance rate), indicating the concordance rate between the actual heart rate over 24 h and the cosine regression curve approximated by the least-squares procedure, was significantly lower in the night shift (0.40 ± 0.15) than in the day shift (0.66 ± 0.19; p<0.001). Moreover, the amplitude was significantly lower and the acrophase was significantly delayed in the night shift. Thus, the circadian heart-rate rhythm was disrupted by the night shift work. Although the heart-rate acrophase recovered during the day and two days after the night shift, the concordance rate and amplitude did not recover, indicating that the influence of night shift work on circadian heart-rate rhythm might persist even two days after the night shift. Based on these results, adequate clinical attention should be paid to how to spend the day and two days after the night shift to correct the circadian heart-rate rhythm disruption caused by night shift work.
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