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Boston — A new study found that night shift workers who eat only during daylight hours may lower their risk of cardiovascular disease associated with shift work.
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital analyzed 20 adult workers in a simulated shift-work setting for two weeks. One group ate meals during the night, while the other ate during the day.
The researchers studied the impact of food timing on cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure, autonomic nervous system markers and levels of a protein that increases the risk of blood clots.
Findings show that risk factors stayed the same for the group that ate meals during the day and increased for participants who ate only at night.
“Our study controlled for every factor that you could imagine that could affect the results, so we can say that it’s the food timing effect that is driving these changes in the cardiovascular risk factors,” Sarah Chellappa, lead study author and part of the hospital’s Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, said in a press release.
The study was published in the journal Nature Communications.
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Original article published by Safety+Health an NSC publication