Late Shift Boosts Heart Attack, Stroke Risk
Digital Vision/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — More bad news for late-shift workers: Their odd hours may be raising their risk of heart attack and stroke.So says a new, large-scale study in the British Medical Journal that adds these two problems — which fit …
Sleep Problems Linked to Obesity, Diabetes
Comstock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Lack of sleep puts people at greater risk of obesity and diabetes, a new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine confirmed. Sporadic and irregular sleep may cause a decreased metabolic rate, which co…
Shift Work Might Lead to Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — While shift workers are needed to help our 24-7 world go ’round, an editorial written by Dr. Virginia Barbour, chief editor of the journal PLoS Medicine, warned that such work schedules can put a person at increased …