If you work at night, you are more likely to have type 2 diabetes

As a study published by The BMJ suggests, women who work intermittently at night and do not follow a healthy lifestyle have a particularly high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. 2 .

Another factor to consider

It is well established that unhealthy lifestyle habits such as smoking, maintaining a poor diet and exercising, as well as being overweight or overweight. Obesity increases the risk of type 2 diabetes. Shift work, especially night work, was also included in the list of factors .

However, researchers believe that it is the first study to badyze the combined impact of unhealthy lifestyle and night shift work on the risk of suffering from type 2 diabetes

The study combined data from two long-term studies on the health of nurses, the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and NHS II, which recruited American nurses in 1976 and in 1989 They extracted data on 143 410 women without type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer having completed medical questionnaires, diet and lifestyle at regular intervals.

For this study, night shift shift work was defined as working at least three night shifts per month, in addition to the day and night shifts of that month. The unhealthy lifestyle has been defined with the help of four factors: being overweight or obese (body mbad index equal to or greater than 25), having already smoked, doing less than 30 minutes of moderate exercise to vigorous a day and have a bad diet. (low in fruits and vegetables and high in processed meats, trans fatty acids, sugar and salt). During the 22-24 years of follow-up, 10,915 of 143,410 nurses reported being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes . Every five years, nurses had 31% (31%) more chance of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Every unhealthy lifestyle factor, being a smoker, being overweight or obesity, low quality diet or low level of physical activity, more than doubled (2.3 times) the risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes .

The authors calculated that rotating night shifts accounted for about 17% of the increased combined risk of type 2 diabetes, an unhealthy lifestyle of about 71%, and that the remaining 11% posed an additional risk related to disease. interaction of the two.
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