Shift work linked to greater diabetes risk

By Shereen Lehman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People who work night shifts, or constantly changing shifts are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes compared to non-shift workers, suggests a new analysis of previous studies. “Shift work is very common in modern society,” the study's senior author Zuxun Lu told Reuters Health in an email. “Over the past decades, a few epidemiological studies have assessed the association between shift work and the risk of diabetes mellitus with the inconsistent results,” said Lu, a researcher at Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. About 15 million Americans are shift workers, according to the U.S.



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