title: Obesity and other risk factors: the national survey of U.S. long-haul truck driver health and injury.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Survey findings suggest a need for targeted interventions and continued surveillance for long-haul truck drivers.
authors.affiliation: Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio.
authors.forename: W Karl
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Sieber
authors.forename: Cynthia F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Birdsey
authors.forename: Guang X
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Edward M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Hitchcock
authors.forename: Jennifer E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Lincoln
authors.forename: Akinori
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakata
authors.forename: Marie H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Sweeney
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016272:Occupational Health; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D057185:Sedentary Behavior; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014186:Transportation; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: health; intervention; risk factor; surveillance; survey; truck driver; work practices