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FRIDAY, Nov. 30, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Both rotating night shift work and unhealthy lifestyle are associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes among female nurses, with a significant additive interaction, according to a study published online Nov. 21 in the BMJ<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Zhilei Shan, Ph.D., from Tongji Medical College in Wuhan, China, and colleagues conducted a prospective cohort study to examine the joint association of duration of rotating night shift work and lifestyle factors with type 2 diabetes risk. Participants included 143,410 women without type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or cancer at baseline from the Nurses’ Health Study and Nurses’ Health Study II.<\/p>\n
The researchers identified 10,915 cases of incident type 2 diabetes during 22 to 24 years of follow-up. The multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios for type 2 diabetes were 1.31 and 2.3 per five-year increment of duration of rotating night shift work and per unhealthy lifestyle factor, respectively. The hazard ratio was 2.83 for the joint association of per-five-year-increment rotating night shift work and per unhealthy lifestyle factor with type 2 diabetes, with a significant additive interaction (P for interaction < 0.001). The proportions of the joint association were 17.1, 71.2, and 11.3 percent for rotating night shift work alone, unhealthy lifestyle alone, and their additive interaction, respectively.<\/p>\n
“These findings suggest that most cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented by adherence to a healthy lifestyle, and the benefits would be larger in rotating night shift workers,” the authors write.<\/p>\n