A new study has an important message for people who consider themselves night owls. Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, found that people with later sleep and wake times had less healthy lifestyles and were at greater risk of developing diabetes than those with early-bird sleep habits.
"Chronotype, or circadian preference, refers to a person's preferred timing of sleep and waking and is partly genetically determined so it may be difficult to change," said corresponding author Tianyi Huang, MSc, ScD, an associate epidemiologist in the Brigham's Channing Division of Network Medicine."People who think they are 'night owls' may need to pay more attention to their lifestyle because their evening chronotype may add increased risk for type 2 diabetes.
The Nurses' Health Study II, a joint effort between the Brigham's Channing Division of Network Medicine and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is among the largest investigations into risk factors for major chronic diseases in women. One of the study's strengths is its regular follow-up of study participants and repeated assessment of health and lifestyle factors.
"When we controlled for unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, the strong association between chronotype and diabetes risk was reduced but still remained, which means that lifestyle factors explain a notable proportion of this association," said first author Sina Kianersi, DVM, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Brigham's Channing Division of Network Medicine.
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