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A review argues that long-term night shift work damages cardiometabolic health through circadian misalignment itself, not merely lost sleep, describing a dose-response relationship between night shift exposure and cardiometabolic risk that is modified by sex and age.
- Study design
- Systematic review
- Journal
- Front Public Health
- Evidence
- preliminary
What it shows: An expert overview rather than new data: it sweeps the existing studies on night shift work in healthcare workers without pooling any numbers. The authors themselves flag poor adherence in trials of fixes and a lack of long-term follow-up.Systematic review · Front Public Health
Long-term night shift work and cardiometabolic health in healthcare workers: a review of mechanisms and precision intervention strategies. Front Public Health 2026Read the study →