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Night shifts increase the risk of injury to women with diabetes type II
U.S. researchers have warned that women who work in irregular shifts, including shifts in the night, more likely than others to diabetes type II.
The researchers from the Faculty of Health at Harvard University study of nearly seventy thousand female nurses between the ages of 42 and 67 years, and about 108,000 women nurses between the ages of 25 and 42 years between 1988 and 2008.
The study, published in the journal "PLoS Medicine" that the greater the period in which women work in night shifts the greater her risk of diabetes type II.
It appeared that the risk of diabetes type II rises to 20% of women who worked between 3 and 9 years in night shifts, rising to 40% while increasing the duration to between 10 and 19 years, and to 58% of women who work for twenty years in the night.
U.S. researchers have warned that women who work in irregular shifts, including shifts in the night, more likely than others to diabetes type II.
The researchers from the Faculty of Health at Harvard University study of nearly seventy thousand female nurses between the ages of 42 and 67 years, and about 108,000 women nurses between the ages of 25 and 42 years between 1988 and 2008.
The study, published in the journal "PLoS Medicine" that the greater the period in which women work in night shifts the greater her risk of diabetes type II.
It appeared that the risk of diabetes type II rises to 20% of women who worked between 3 and 9 years in night shifts, rising to 40% while increasing the duration to between 10 and 19 years, and to 58% of women who work for twenty years in the night.
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