Night-shift work and incident diabetes among African-American women

The aim of this study was to assess shift work in relation to incident type 2 diabetes in African-American women. In the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS), an ongoing prospective cohort study, we followed 28,041 participants for incident diabetes during 2005–2013. They answered questions in 2005 about having worked a night shift. We estimated HR and 95% CIs for incident diabetes using Cox proportional hazards models. The basic multivariable...