Night Shift May Boost Black Women’s Diabetes Risk

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Slone Epidemiology Center

Night shift work significantly increases the risk of diabetes in black women, according to a new study.

Expert quote:

“In view of the high prevalence of shift work among workers in the U.S.A. — 35 percent among non-Hispanic blacks and 28 percent in non-Hispanic whites — an increased diabetes risk among this group has important public health implications,” wrote the study authors from Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.

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