(HealthDay News) Working rotating night shifts may do more than leave you tired; it may also increase your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, new research finds.
A study of two groups of women found that those who worked rotating night shifts were more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than women with regular hours, and the longer that they worked a rotating shift schedule, the greater their risk…
[Said the study's senior author, Dr. Frank Hu,] "For nurses who spent a couple of years working rotating night shifts, there was a minimal increase in risk. But, for those with a very long duration of rotating shifts, the risk was almost 60 percent higher. This provides pretty strong evidence that the longer the rotating night shift work, the greater the risk of diabetes."
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