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Work in shifts? You are at a high risk of strokes

A new study has found that shift work can put workers out of sync with their body clocks, leading to more severe strokes.

By: Agencies   | | Updated: June 2, 2016 11:01 am
Tags: Night shift  Stroke symptoms  
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Eat a well-balanced diet if you are working in the night shift. © Shutterstock

A new study has found that shift work can put workers out of sync with their body clocks, leading to more severe strokes. Researcher David Earnest from the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine said that the body is synchronized to night and day by circadian rhythms and a person on a shift work schedule, especially on rotating shifts, challenges, or confuses, their internal body clocks by having irregular sleep-wake patterns or meal times. According to Earnest, it’s not the longer hours or the weird hours necessarily that is the problem. Instead, it is the change in the timing of waking, sleeping and eating every few days that unwinds our body clocks and makes it difficult for them to maintain their natural, 24-hour cycle. When body clocks are disrupted, as they are when people go to bed and get up at radically different times every few days, there can be a major impact on health. (Read: Fitness tip: Expert recommended diet plan for night shift employees) Also Read - 'Aashiqui' actor Rahul Roy suffers brain stroke: What can cause a stroke?

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Earnest and his colleagues have found that shift work can lead to more severe ischemic strokes, the leading cause of disability in the United States, which occur when blood flow is cut off to part of the brain. Using an animal model, the team found that subjects on shift work schedules had more severe stroke outcomes, in terms of both brain damage and loss of sensation and limb movement than controls on regular 24-hour cycles of day and night. Of interest, their study, supported by the American Heart Association, found that males and females show major differences in the degree to which the stroke was exacerbated by circadian rhythm disruption; in males, the gravity of stroke outcomes in response to shift work schedules was much worse than in females. (Read: Here s how working night shifts is making you sick) Also Read - Night shifts can put you at risk of heart diseases, cancer and more

Researcher Farida Sohrabji added that these sex differences might be related to reproductive hormones. Young women are less likely to suffer strokes, as compared with men of a similar age, and when they do, the stroke outcomes are likely to be less severe. In females, estrogen is thought to be responsible for this greater degree of neuroprotection. The study is published in Endocrinology. (Read: Working in night shifts puts women at a risk of heart disease)

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Published : June 2, 2016 9:41 am | Updated:June 2, 2016 11:01 am
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