Outdoor artificial light-at-night and cardiometabolic disease risk: an urban perspective from the Catalan GCAT cohort study.

ABSTRACT: We investigated the association between outdoor artificial light-at-night (ALAN) exposure and cardiometabolic risk in the GCAT study. We included 9752 participants from Barcelona (59% women) and used satellite images (30 m resolution) and estimated photopic illuminance and the circadian regulation-relevant melanopic equivalent daylight illuminance (melanopic EDI). We explored the association between ALAN exposure and prevalent obesity, hypertension, and diabetes with logistic regressions and assessed the relationship with incident cardiometabolic diseases ascertained through electronic health records (mean follow-up 6.5 years) with Cox proportional hazards regressions. We observed an association between photopic illuminance and melanopic EDI and prevalent hypertension, odds ratio (OR) = 1.

SUBMITTER: Palomar-Cros A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11978616 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature