Rotating Night Shift Work and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Two Prospective Cohort Studies in Women

An Pan; Eva S. Schernhammer; Qi Sun; Frank B. Hu

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001141

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Rotating Night Shift Work and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Two Prospective Cohort Studies in Women

An Pan,

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Eva S. Schernhammer,

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Qi Sun,

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Frank B. Hu

* E-mail: frank.hu@channing.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Rotating Night Shift Work and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Two Prospective Cohort Studies in Women

An Pan,
Eva S. Schernhammer,
Qi Sun,
Frank B. Hu

Published: December 6, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001141

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Title: “Shift work: good for your pocketbook, bad for your health”
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Publication: TIME
Title: “Why Working the Night Shift May Boost Your Risk of Diabetes”
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Publication: Huffington Post
Title: “Working Night Shifts May Raise Diabetes Risk, Study Shows”
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Publication: Diabetes.co.uk
Title: “Likelihood of developing diabetes rises with irregular work patterns”
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Publication: Daily Mail
Title: “Women who work rotating night-shifts have a greater risk of type 2 diabetes”
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Title: “Night shift work may raise diabetes risk”
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Publication: Boston Globe
Title: “Night shift work linked to diabetes: 3 ways to minimize risk”
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Publication: Times of India
Title: “Irregular shift ups diabetes risk in women”
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