Type 2 Diabetes Risk Higher For Night Shift Workers
Special Report: Secret of Healthy Digestion and Regularity Get this report FREE when you opt in for our FREE Health eTalk daily newsletter along with exclusive offers from Bel Marra Health and third party partners You may opt-out at any time. Privacy Policy Home Diabetes Type 2 diabetes risk higher for night shift workers Type 2 diabetes risk higher for night shift workers By: Dr. Victor Marchione | Diabetes | Sunday, July 03, 2016 - 09:30 AM In America, odds are, youre at risk of diabetes . Thats a fact. And what if your job isputting you at an even greaterrisk for the condition? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 29.1 million Americans have diabetes. Of those, 8.1 million are undiagnosed, just carrying on with unhealthy habits that are bound to make things worse. Diabetes tends to be higher among seniors and most prevalent in American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Diabetes comes in two forms: type 1 and type 2. Type 2 is the most common form we hear about because numbers are rising, even though its the preventable type. Type 2 diabetes results from factors like diet, weight, and activity level all aspects we can control. There are many ways you can prevent type 2 diabetes . Eating a balanced diet with fruits, vegetables, and protein is a good start. Avoiding foods that are high in sugar, processed, and fried is highly recommended as thesecan lead to obesity another risk factor. Physical activity is also important as it can aid in maintaining a healthy weight. But there is one factor in diabetes prevention you probably havent heard of or even considered. Its the time of the day when you work. If youre on the night shift, your risk of developing type 2 diabetes jumps significantly. Working night shifts can raise risk of type 2 diabetes In Continue reading >>
New Study Explores Connection Between Shift Work And Type 2 Diabetes
New study explores connection between shift work and type 2 diabetes A new study takes a deep look at the connection between shift work and type 2 diabetes. Investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital leveraged data on hundreds of thousands of people in the UK Biobank to better understand how shift work - especially frequent night work - contributes to the likelihood of type 2 diabetes. The team also developed a genetic risk score for type 2 diabetes, examining genetic data for tens of thousands of workers in the database. They found that more frequent night work increased the odds of type 2 diabetes, regardless of genetic type 2 diabetes risk, among the population studied. Their results are published this week in Diabetes Care. "We see a dose-response relationship between frequency of night shift work and type 2 diabetes, where the more often people do shift work, the greater their likelihood of having the disease, regardless of genetic predisposition," said co-first author Cline Vetter, PhD who conducted this work while at the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH, along with co-first author Hassan S. Dashti, PhD, RD. Vetter is now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "This helps us understand one piece of the puzzle: frequency of night shift work seems to be an important factor." The team examined data from more than 270,000 people, including 70,000 who provided in-depth lifetime employment information and a subgroup of more than 44,000 for whom genetic data were available. More than 6,000 people in the sample population had type 2 diabetes. Using information on more than 100 genetic variants that are associated with type 2 diabetes, the research team developed a genetic risk score that they used to assign a value to each participa Continue reading >>
Quick Tips: Diabetes And Shift Work - Get Started
Managing diabetes is all about setting a healthy routine of medicine, eating, exercise, and sleep. But when you work night shifts or have changing work shifts, it can seem like there's nothing at all routine about your life. It's definitely more of a chore to manage diabetes under such conditions, but it can be done. These tips may help. Get organized Talk to your doctor, registered dietitian, or diabetes educator. He or she will help you make a plan for dealing with your shift work. Have a backpack, briefcase, or large purse that always contains your at-work essentials, such as: Planned snacks. Emergency snacks. Medicines. A water bottle. Lunch. An ice pack, if you don't have access to a refrigerator. Tell your employer that you have diabetes. Show him or her your plan. Ask for regular breaks, a place to store and take your insulin or other medicine, and a place to rest when you need it. The American Diabetes Association offers counseling to help you learn your rights on the job. Manage your blood sugar Test your blood sugar every couple of hours. Working night shifts or constantly changing shifts can affect your blood sugar in ways that may surprise you. Keep a detailed record of your blood sugar readings, medicine doses, exercise, and sleep. This will help you and your doctor see patterns and make plans to deal with them. If you haven't already, consider updating your blood sugar meter. Newer ones do a lot of tracking for you. They record trends and keep track of carbohydrate averages per meal. If you take insulin, consider using an insulin pump. Plan your meals Try planning a week's worth of your at-work lunches at a time, so you avoid the snack machine or the nearby fast food restaurant. Are you often too tired to make dinner after work? Keep a supply of healthy, r Continue reading >>
Do You Frequently Work In Night Shifts? You Are More Likely To Develop Type 2 Diabetes
Do you frequently work in night shifts? You are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes NEW YORK: Do you frequently work in night shifts? Beware, you are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes , a precursor to cardiovascular diseases, researchers have warned. Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar (glucose). The study found that people working irregular or rotating shifts with usual night shifts were 44 per cent more likely to have Type 2 diabetes. In addition, compared to day workers, all shift workers were more likely to have Type 2 diabetes, except for permanent night shift workers, the researchers mentioned. "We see a dose-response relationship between frequency of night shift work and Type 2 diabetes, where the more often people do shift work, the greater their likelihood of having the disease, regardless of genetic predisposition," said Ceiine Vetter, Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder. "This helps us understand one piece of the puzzle: frequency of night shift work seems to be an important factor," Vetter added. For the study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, the team examined data from more than 270,000 people, including 70,000 who provided in-depth lifetime employment information and a sub-group of more than 44,000 for whom genetic data were available. More than 6,000 people in the sample population had Type 2 diabetes. Using information on more than 100 genetic variants that are associated with Type 2 diabetes, the research team developed a genetic risk score that they used to assign a value to each participant. The results showed that those with the highest genetic risk scores were almost four times as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes compared to individuals who had lower genetic risk sc Continue reading >>
Why Working The Night Shift May Boost Your Risk Of Diabetes
The night shift isn’t usually anyone’s first choice, but in some professions — and in this economy — it can’t be avoided. About 26% percent of the American workforce, including health-care workers and sanitation staff, clocks in after dark, and the schedule may be taking a toll on their health. Past research has shown that working when you’re supposed to be in bed disrupts your circadian rhythm, raising the risk of heart disease, obesity, ulcers and even depression. Now, reporting in the journal PLoS Medicine, scientists also find that rotating night-shift work can increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. The backward schedule can mess with the body’s ability to use insulin properly to break down sugars in the blood, according to Dr. Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. In a study involving nearly 177,000 middle-aged women enrolled in two Nurses’ Health Studies, women who worked rotating night shifts for 1 to 2 years increased their risk of developing diabetes by 5% over a 20-year follow-up period, compared with women who didn’t get assigned these shifts. Women who kept up night work for 10 to 19 years increased their risk by 40%. Working on and off at night for more than 20 years boosted the risk of diabetes by 60%. Certainly, body weight is part of the problem, since excess weight is a risk factor for diabetes. People who work at night may snack more when they should be sleeping — and our bodies are metabolically trained to slow down as the sun sets. So the calories we take in during the evening and night hours are less likely to get burned off efficiently, and more likely to be stored as fat. It’s not just night work that causes a problem. Simply not sleeping when you’re supposed to, o Continue reading >>
Irregular Shift Work Ups Risk For Type 2 Diabetes
Irregular Shift Work Ups Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Shift work, especially irregular shifts with a lot of nights, increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, and the more nights worked, the greater the risk, new research shows. "Shift work, particularly night shifts, disrupts social and biological rhythms, as well as sleep, and has been suggested to increase the risk of metabolic disorders, including type 2 diabetes," says lead author Celine Vetter, PhD, director, Circadian and Sleep Epidemiology laboratory at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "Our study is one of the first to show a doseresponse relationship, where the more often people work nights, the greater their likelihood of having the disease," she noted in a press release from her institution. However, of interest, she and her colleagues also found that those who worked permanent night shifts did not have a significantly increased risk for diabetes. The research was published online February 12 in Diabetes Care. How Do Different Work Schedules Impact Risk of Diabetes? Vetter and colleagues note that about 15 million Americans work permanent night shifts, rotating shifts, or shifts with irregular schedules. Recent studies have found associations between such shift work and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer, but few have looked specifically at how different work schedule characteristics impact risk. For this analysis, the research team analyzed data on 272 217 participants in the UK Biobank database, 77 000 of whom provided a lifetime history of employment. Compared with people who worked only during the day, all shift workers were more likely to have type 2 diabetes. Adjustment for many confounding variables including body mass index attenuated the risk but it remained significant, the study authors poin Continue reading >>
Rotating Night Shifts May Be A Path To Diabetes, Study Suggests
Rotating night shifts may be a path to diabetes, study suggests Frequent night shift work by people who don't normally punch the clock in the evening appeared to boost the risk for Type 2 diabetes, according to recent research. Frequent night shift work by people who don't normally punch the clock in the evening appeared to boost the risk for Type 2 diabetes, according to recent research. (Getty Images) Working the night shift may play havoc with your blood sugar levels, a new study contends. For the study, researchers looked at data on more than 270,000 people in the United Kingdom and found that those who worked irregular or rotating shifts that included night shifts were 44 percent more likely to have Type 2 diabetes than those who worked only days. "Shift work, particularly night shifts, disrupts social and biological rhythms, as well as sleep, and has been suggested to increase the risk of metabolic disorders, including Type 2 diabetes," said study co-first author Celine Vetter. She directs the University of Colorado's Circadian and Sleep Epidemiology Laboratory. The more often a person worked an irregular night shift, the greater their risk for Type 2 diabetes, the findings showed. For example, working nights less than three times a month increased the risk by 24 percent, but working nights more than eight times a month increased the risk by 36 percent. "Our study is one of the first to show a dose-response relationship, where the more often people work nights, the greater their likelihood of having the disease," Vetter added in a university news release. However, working a permanent night shift was not linked to an increased risk of diabetes. The study authors suggested that these people might adapt to a consistent night-shift schedule, or perhaps they were "nig Continue reading >>
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Eating During The Night (night Shift)
If you eat a meal during the night, does it affect your sugar more than one during the day? I eat breakfast at 10pm, a snack around 3am and dinner at 8am, then a bedtime snack around 2pm. BUT when I'm off work, I'll eat breakfast around 12 or 1 am. I ate around midnight tonight It peaked at 256 and my sugar is still in the 230s 2 hours later..even with the 5 mg Glip and 500 of Met. That's higher than it peaked this morning when I ate something that had more carbs and only 2.5 mg! Last edited by Lilmissprepper; 5/30/15 at 01:48 AM. Moderator T2 insulin resistant Using Basal/Bolus Therapy When a person works shift work and then has to do a few days as a 'Day' person is will mess with your numbers. It is the change in your body clock and how it affects metabolism. What exactly are you eating that you would jump to the mid 200s? I really don't know much about Glip but 500 mg of Metformin is a very low dose. When a person works shift work and then has to do a few days as a 'Day' person is will mess with your numbers. It is the change in your body clock and how it affects metabolism. What exactly are you eating that you would jump to the mid 200s? I really don't know much about Glip but 500 mg of Metformin is a very low dose. An omelet. 2 eggs, a small zucchini. bacon, mushrooms feta cheese. and 1 slice of toast. It was only about 24 carbs TOTAL! I'm taking 2000mg of Met a day. I have to break it into 3 or 4 doses though, or it tears up my gut. I work 11p-7a 5 nights a week and only have Fri and Sat off. Moderator T2 insulin resistant Using Basal/Bolus Therapy Your Met dose sounds pretty good then but those two days off can and will mess with your system. You might have to go to some long lasting insulin (basal) if the numbers stay up. Ask your doctor for some Metformin ER ( Continue reading >>
Night-shift Work May Impair Glucose Tolerance
Night-Shift Work May Impair Glucose Tolerance Working the night shift may reduce glucose tolerance and increase a persons risk of developing Type 2 diabetes , according to a new study from researchers in Boston. Nearly 24 million people in the United States have Type 2 diabetes, and roughly 8.6 million Americans work the night shift. Previous studies have shown that people who work the night shift have an increased risk of developing Type 2. To determine what factors might contribute to this increase in risk, researchers recruited 13 healthy, nonobese adults who did not have a significant history of night-shift work. The participants were assigned to complete two eight-day procedures in the laboratory in random order. Both procedures included four baseline days, which were then followed by either four days of daytime work or four days of nighttime work. The content of meals provided to both groups was identical; however, people working the day shift began eating at 8 AM, while people working the night shift began eating at 8 PM. Participants had a fasting blood sample taken before the meal, with additional samples taken every 10 minutes for 90 minutes following the meal and every 30 minutes for 90 minutes thereafter. The researchers found that peak blood glucose levels were 16% higher during the nighttime shifts compared to during the daytime shifts. They also discovered that, although the meals given to each group were identical, the insulin levels in the night-shift workers were 40% to 50% higher between 80 and 90 minutes after their meal than the insulin levels in daytime workers during the same time frame. It is surprising that just a single night shift can significantly impair glucose tolerance and increase insulin levels. These findings are important because they Continue reading >>
Night Shift Work, Genetic Risk, And Type 2 Diabetes In The Uk Biobank.
Diabetes Care. 2018 Apr;41(4):762-769. doi: 10.2337/dc17-1933. Epub 2018 Feb 12. Night Shift Work, Genetic Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes in the UK Biobank. Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO [email protected] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA. Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Gastroenterology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. Manchester Diabetes Centre, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, U.K. Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. To examine the effects of past and current night shift work and genetic type 2 diabetes vulnerability on type 2 diabetes odds. In the UK Biobank, we examined associations of current (N = 272,214) and lifetime (N = 70,480) night shift work exposure with type 2 diabetes risk (6,770 and 1,191 prevalent cases, respectively). For 180,704 and 44,141 unrelated participants of European ancestry (4,002 and 726 cases, respectively) with genetic data, we assessed whether shift work exposure modified the relationship between a genetic risk score (comprising 110 single-nucleotide polymorphisms) for type 2 diabetes and prevalent diabetes. Compared with day workers, all current night shift workers were at higher multivariable-adjusted odds Continue reading >>
Rotating Night Shifts May Be A Path To Diabetes, Study Suggests
Rotating night shifts may be a path to diabetes, study suggests Frequent night shift work by people who don't normally punch the clock in the evening appeared to boost the risk for Type 2 diabetes, according to recent research. Frequent night shift work by people who don't normally punch the clock in the evening appeared to boost the risk for Type 2 diabetes, according to recent research. (Getty Images) Working the night shift may play havoc with your blood sugar levels, a new study contends. For the study, researchers looked at data on more than 270,000 people in the United Kingdom and found that those who worked irregular or rotating shifts that included night shifts were 44 percent more likely to have Type 2 diabetes than those who worked only days. "Shift work, particularly night shifts, disrupts social and biological rhythms, as well as sleep, and has been suggested to increase the risk of metabolic disorders, including Type 2 diabetes," said study co-first author Celine Vetter. She directs the University of Colorado's Circadian and Sleep Epidemiology Laboratory. The more often a person worked an irregular night shift, the greater their risk for Type 2 diabetes, the findings showed. For example, working nights less than three times a month increased the risk by 24 percent, but working nights more than eight times a month increased the risk by 36 percent. "Our study is one of the first to show a dose-response relationship, where the more often people work nights, the greater their likelihood of having the disease," Vetter added in a university news release. However, working a permanent night shift was not linked to an increased risk of diabetes. The study authors suggested that these people might adapt to a consistent night-shift schedule, or perhaps they were "nig Continue reading >>
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How Can I Adjust My Diabetes Treatment Plan To Work The Night Shift?
When you work the night shift you may feel out of sync with the rest of the world. While everyone else is eating breakfast, you’re ready for your bedtime snack. Adjusting to conventional hours on your days off can also be a challenge. Nevertheless, with careful planning and monitoring, you can learn to make adjustments so that your new routine works for you. Insulin Adjustments for Night Shift If you plan to sleep through the day, you may need to adjust your insulin dose to prevent hypoglycemia while you sleep. It may be easier to use a more intensive approach to manage your diabetes. For example, you could take an injection of long-acting insulin at the same time every day and rapid- or short-acting insulin before your meals. An insulin pump may also work well. Your health care team can help you make changes. If you prefer to stay up until noon and sleep through the afternoon and early evening, your normal morning insulin dose may work just fine. But you may have to make adjustments in your evening dose. If your job calls for some nights on and some nights off, then you will need to check your blood glucose levels more often and fine-tune your insulin dose. If you have type 2 diabetes and are not taking insulin, you may still have to accommodate your work schedule. If you are taking oral medication, eating at a particular time may make a difference. It may be as simple as making sure you eat a snack before sleeping or changing when you eat and work out. Continue reading >>
Frequent Night-shift Work Boosts Likelihood Of Type 2 Diabetes
Frequent night-shift work boosts likelihood of Type 2 diabetes Published: Feb. 12, 2018 By Lisa Marshall Healthcare workers, security guards and other employees who periodically work the night shift are significantly more likely to have Type 2 diabetes than workers who work only days, according to a sweeping new study by researchers from CU Boulder and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) in Boston. The study of more than 270,000 people, published online this week in the journal Diabetes Care, also found that the more nights employees work, the greater their odds of having the disease, whether they are genetically predisposed to it or not. Shift work, particularly night shifts, disrupts social and biological rhythms, as well as sleep, and has been suggested to increase the risk of metabolic disorders, including Type 2 diabetes, said co-first author Celine Vetter, director of the Circadian and Sleep Epidemiology Laboratory (CASEL) at CU Boulder. Our study is one of the first to show a dose-response relationship, where the more often people work nights, the greater their likelihood of having the disease. About 15 million Americans work permanent night shifts, rotating shifts or shifts with irregular schedules. Recent studies have found associations between such shift work and cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, but few have looked specifically at how different work schedule characteristics impact risk. For the study, Vetter worked along with co-first author Hassan S. Dashti and collaborators at BWH, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Manchester University, to examine data from participants 38 to 71 years old in the UK Biobank. Participants had provided detailed information on lifestyle, health status and present work schedule; 77,000 also provided in-depth Continue reading >>
Diabetes Control Is More Difficult For Night Shift Workers
Contact: Aaron Lohr Chief Communications Officer Phone: 202.971.3654 [email protected] Contact: Jenni Glenn Gingery Associate Director, Communications and Media Relations Phone: 202.971.3655 [email protected] ORLANDO - People with type 2 diabetes have poorer control over their blood glucose levels when they work the night shift compared with those who work in the daytime or are unemployed, a new study finds. The study results, to be presented Monday at the Endocrine Society’s 99th annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., showed that poor long-term glycemic, or blood sugar, control, was independent of what workers ate or any sleep problems they had. These new findings, from investigators in Thailand, expand on others’ research showing that night shift work is associated with an increased risk for the development of diabetes. “Previously, there were little data whether people who already have type 2 diabetes and work the night shift have trouble controlling their blood sugars,” said Sirimon Reutrakul, M.D., the study’s principal investigator and an associate professor at Mahidol University Faculty of Medicine, Bangkok. “Our study data raise awareness of the difficulty in diabetes control among night shift workers.” In the United States alone, nearly 6 million full-time employees work a permanent or rotating night shift, according to 2000 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Reutrakul and her colleagues studied 260 individuals with type 2 diabetes in Thailand: 62 night shift workers, 94 daytime workers and 104 unemployed individuals. The researchers determined the study participants’ glycemic control by reviewing their medical records for recent measurements of hemoglobin A1C. The A1C test shows the average blood sugar level over the previous three mont Continue reading >>
New Study Explores Connection Between Shift Work And Type 2 Diabetes
New study explores connection between shift work and type 2 diabetes A new study takes a deep look at the connection between shift work and type 2 diabetes. Investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital leveraged data on hundreds of thousands of people in the UK Biobank to better understand how shift work - especially frequent night work - contributes to the likelihood of type 2 diabetes. The team also developed a genetic risk score for type 2 diabetes, examining genetic data for tens of thousands of workers in the database. They found that more frequent night work increased the odds of type 2 diabetes, regardless of genetic type 2 diabetes risk, among the population studied. Their results are published this week in Diabetes Care. "We see a dose-response relationship between frequency of night shift work and type 2 diabetes, where the more often people do shift work, the greater their likelihood of having the disease, regardless of genetic predisposition," said co-first author Cline Vetter, PhD who conducted this work while at the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH, along with co-first author Hassan S. Dashti, PhD, RD. Vetter is now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "This helps us understand one piece of the puzzle: frequency of night shift work seems to be an important factor." The team examined data from more than 270,000 people, including 70,000 who provided in-depth lifetime employment information and a subgroup of more than 44,000 for whom genetic data were available. More than 6,000 people in the sample population had type 2 diabetes. Using information on more than 100 genetic variants that are associated with type 2 diabetes, the research team developed a genetic risk score that they used to assign a value to each participa Continue reading >>
