Obesity and other risk factors: The National Survey of U.S. Long-Haul Truck Driver Health and Injury

Background Drivers of heavy and tractor‐trailer trucks accounted for 56% of all production and nonsupervisory employees in the truck transportation industry in 2011. There are limited data for illness and injury in long‐haul truck drivers, which prompted a targeted national survey. Methods Interview...

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Published in:American journal of industrial medicine Vol. 57; no. 6; pp. 615 - 626
Main Authors: Sieber, W. Karl, Robinson, Cynthia F., Birdsey, Jan, Chen, Guang X., Hitchcock, Edward M., Lincoln, Jennifer E., Nakata, Akinori, Sweeney, Marie H.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2014
Wiley-Liss
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Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Agricultural equipment
Biological and medical sciences
Female
health
Humans
Hypercholesterolemia - epidemiology
Hypertension
Hypertension - epidemiology
intervention
Male
Medical sciences
Metabolic diseases
Middle Aged
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Occupational Health
Occupational medicine
Prevalence
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Restaurants
risk factor
Risk Factors
Sedentary Behavior
Sleep Deprivation - epidemiology
Smoking - epidemiology
surveillance
survey
Transportation
Transportation industry
truck driver
Truck drivers
Trucking industry
Trucks
United States - epidemiology
work practices
Young Adult
United States
North America
America
USA
Human
Obesity
Injury
Nutrition disorder
health
Operation
Public inquiry
Occupational exposure
Trauma
Vehicle driver
Surveillance
Lorry
Professional practice
truck driver
work practices
Risk factor
survey
intervention
Occupational medicine
Nutritional status
Public health
surveillance
risk factor
ISSN:0271-3586, 1097-0274, 1097-0274
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Summary:Background Drivers of heavy and tractor‐trailer trucks accounted for 56% of all production and nonsupervisory employees in the truck transportation industry in 2011. There are limited data for illness and injury in long‐haul truck drivers, which prompted a targeted national survey. Methods Interviewers collected data during 2010 from 1,670 long‐haul truck drivers at 32 truck stops across the 48 contiguous United States that were used to compute prevalence estimates for self‐reported health conditions and risk factors. Results Obesity (69% vs. 31%, P < 0.01) and current smoking (51% vs. 19%, P < 0.01) were twice as prevalent in long‐haul truck drivers as in the 2010 U.S. adult working population. Sixty‐one percent reported having two or more of the risk factors: hypertension, obesity, smoking, high cholesterol, no physical activity, 6 or fewer hours of sleep per 24‐hr period. Conclusion Survey findings suggest a need for targeted interventions and continued surveillance for long‐haul truck drivers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 57:615–626, 2014. Published 2014. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
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ISSN:0271-3586
1097-0274
1097-0274
DOI:10.1002/ajim.22293