Evening and Nocturnal Chronotype: A Significant Risk to Health, Study Finds

People who have an evening and nocturnal chronotype risk causing significant damage to their health: let’s find out what this means.

When are we most active? During the day or at night? And even more in detail: do we prefer to dedicate ourselves to carrying out our professional or study (but also personal) duties mainly in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening or in the middle of the night? Well, our level of well-being or malaise could depend on this.

The study was conducted by researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Health Hospital in Boston – NewSicily.it

It is a recent US study, carried out on more than 63,000 nurses by researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Health Hospital in Boston, to have correlated the participants’ chronotype with their health status. But what is chronotype? Well, it is the time of day when a person wants – or is predisposed to – being most active.

Therefore there are chronotypes that favor, we could say, sunlight and others that instead prefer moonlight. The researchers therefore asked themselves whether people’s level of well-being – or vice versa, malaise – depends in some way on each person’s chronotype. In other words: In terms of health, is a daily or evening chronotype more convenient? Or is it irrelevant? Here are the results.

The results of the study by Boston researchers

The results obtained by the Boston research group left no room for misunderstanding: “Middle-aged nurses with an evening chronotype – we read in the report – had more likely to engage in unhealthy lifestyle behaviors”. But there’s more: the greatest risk found by the results of the study is that the evening and nocturnal chronotype entails a greater possibility of the onset of “diabetes compared to the morning chronotype”.

According to the study, the chances of developing type 2 diabetes increase by 72% for evening and night-time chromotypes – NewSicily.it

Furthermore, the compensation carried out in cases of evening and nocturnal chronotype through “physical activity, diet and other modifiable lifestyle factors, attenuated largely, but not entirely, the increased risk of diabetes”, overall equal to a significant +72% for type 2 diabetes. And although the risk was found to decrease to +19% in cases of attention to diet, healthy physical stress activity and rest, it nevertheless remains a particularly compromising factor.

So according to the study being more active at night than during the day can significantly compromise your health, as well as encouraging greater alcohol intake, more frequent smoking, less physical activity, lowering the quality of food and even rest periods. For this reason, it is advisable for professionals such as nurses necessarily engaged in night shifts to alternate cycles of activity regularly, constantly monitoring the repercussions on their level of physical, mental and emotional well-being.

2024-01-25 21:30:48
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