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Circadian Misalignment Helps Explain Higher Cardiovascular Risk in Shift Workers

EMS World Staff
02/21/2016

A new study led by Harvard Medical School researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital may help explain why shift work increases the risk for cardiovascular disease.

The researchers found that short-term circadian misalignment, resulting from a rapid 12-hour inversion of the sleep/wake and fasting/feeding cycle that is typical in shift workers, leads to adverse cardiovascular and inflammatory consequences in healthy adults.

The findings are published Feb. 8 in PNAS.

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