Rotating Night Shift Work and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Two Prospective Cohort Studies in Women
Summary
Across two nurse cohorts, longer duration of rotating night shift work was associated with higher risk of type 2 diabetes, partly mediated by body weight.
Why It Matters For Night Shift Workers and Night Owls
Prospective data how timing of light, sleep, meals, and schedules tracked with weight for night‑shift workers and night owls. Overall, the data make the schedule itself visible in physiology, not just in how people feel subjectively. For the audience living on night schedules, the key meaning is that the schedule’s timing choices show up in measurable outcomes.
Notes
Open access (PLOS Medicine).