Free-Living Sleep, Food Intake, and Physical Activity in Night and Morning Shift Workers.

ABSTRACT: Objective: Shift work is associated with risk for adverse health outcomes including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and obesity. Short sleep duration combined with disruptions to the circadian system may alter factors involved with the behavioral regulation of energy intake and expenditure. We aimed to determine how shift work affects sleep, food intake, and physical activity.Methods: This was a field-based observational study using objective assessments of sleep and physical activity and a 24-hour dietary recall in shift workers. Day (n = 12) and night (n = 12) hospital shift workers (nurses and technicians) who were women had their free-living sleep and physical activity tracked via accelerometry, and completed a computer-assisted 24-hour food recall, durin

SUBMITTER: Lauren S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7234922 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature