What is it about?
We assessed the health status and chronotype (the dimension between the poles of being a "morning lark" or a "night owl") in adults, and found that "night owls" had many common diseases more often than the rest of people.
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Why is it important?
Chronotype is an emerging predictor of health and longevity. Understanding more in detail its influence on chronic but common diseases is important for having new ideas for the long-term pathways to health.
Perspectives
This is the first study where the link of chronotype to a range of common non-communicable chronic conditions was assessed in a big, nationwide, general-population sample of adults aged 25 to 74 years. Please read it through this eprint link: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5NymH84N6rimJTIVyjKJ/full
Professor Timo Partonen
National Institute for Health and Welfare
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Associations of common noncommunicable medical conditions and chronic diseases with chronotype in a population-based health examination study, Chronobiology International, March 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2017.1295050.
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