Altered coordination between sleep timing and cortisol profiles in night working female hospital employees

• DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107066
• Publication Date: 2024-04-30T18:04:38Z
• Authors: Katarzyna Burek; Sylvia Rabstein; Thomas Kantermann; Céline Vetter; Rui Wang-Sattler; Martin Lehnert; Dirk Pallapies; Karl-Heinz Jöckel; Thomas Brüning; Thomas Behrens
• Keywords: Sleep; Cortisol awakening response

Cortisol typically peaks in the morning after waking up and declines throughout day, reaching its lowest levels during nighttime sleep. Shift work can cause misalignment between cortisol sleep-wake timing. We analyzed this female shift workers focusing on timing extent of these changes.