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| Tara A HartleySummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Associations between police officer stress and the metabolic syndromeTara A Hartley
Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, USA
Int J Emerg Ment Health 13:243-56. 2011..Given the stress of policing and the adverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors prevalent among police officers, exploring the association between specific types of police stress and subclinical CVD is important...
Health disparities in police officers: comparisons to the U.S. general populationTara A Hartley
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, USA
Int J Emerg Ment Health 13:211-20. 2011..Future studies should expand this comparison to additional traditional and non-traditional CVD risk factors and to other occupational groups...
Association between depressive symptoms and metabolic syndrome in police officers: results from two cross-sectional studiesTara A Hartley
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
J Environ Public Health 2012:861219. 2012..Exploring this association is important since both are predictors of future chronic health problems and the results could be helpful in developing future gender-specific prevention and intervention efforts among police officers...
Associations between major life events, traumatic incidents, and depression among Buffalo police officersTara A Hartley
Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Int J Emerg Ment Health 9:25-35. 2007..Police agencies should consider developing psychological assistance efforts to help affected officers cope with these events and deal with depression...
Metabolic syndrome and carotid intima media thickness in urban police officersTara A Hartley
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
J Occup Environ Med 53:553-61. 2011..To examine the association between metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) and carotid intima media thickness (IMT) separately in male and female police officers...
Hardiness and psychological distress in a cohort of police officersMichael E Andrew
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Health Effects Laboratory Division, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch in Morgantown, VW 26505, USA
Int J Emerg Ment Health 10:137-47. 2008..The magnitude of gender differences in these associations shows that for depressive and PTSD symptoms, the commitment dimension of hardiness may be more protective in female police officers than in male officers...
Adiposity measures and oxidative stress among police officersLuenda E Charles
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:2489-97. 2008..Larger indices of adiposity were associated with increased levels of oxidative stress and decreased levels of antioxidant defense...
Associations of long-term shift work with waking salivary cortisol concentration and patterns among police officersDesta Fekedulegn
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Ind Health 50:476-86. 2012..The results show that long-term midnight shift work is associated with decreased absolute mean level and total volume of cortisol released over the waking period...
Area under the curve and other summary indicators of repeated waking cortisol measurementsDesta B Fekedulegn
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HELD BEB, MS 4050, 1095 Willowdale Rd, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Psychosom Med 69:651-9. 2007..The latter parameters, AUC(I), however, is seldom used by research scientists...
Shift-work and suicide ideation among police officersJohn M Violanti
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Health Professions, State University of NY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Am J Ind Med 51:758-68. 2008..This cross-sectional study assessed the association of shift work with suicide ideation among police officers...
Police trauma and cardiovascular disease: association between PTSD symptoms and metabolic syndromeJohn M Violanti
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Health Professions, State University of NY at Buffalo, USA
Int J Emerg Ment Health 8:227-37. 2006..71, 95% C.I. = 0.99 - 7.37). Thus, officers with severe PTSD symptoms were approximately three times more likely to have the metabolic syndrome and education may account for some of this association...
