ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2018
Night Shift Work Before and During Pregnancy and Offspring Weight Outcomes Through Adolescence.
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- Night shift work exposure shapes neurobehavioral and cardiometabolic profiles in female healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Maternal circadian disruption during pregnancy and offspring diabetic cardiovascular disease risk.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Review
- Influence of Maternal Working Hours on Children's Sleep: A Preliminary Study on Disparities Between Day and Night Shifts.Clocks & sleep · 2025Article
- Shift work and menstruation: A meta-analysis study.SSM - population health · 2023Review
- Common sleep disorders in pregnancy: a review.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- Association between maternal shift work during pregnancy child overweight and metabolic outcomes in early childhood.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Maternal Chronodisruption Throughout Pregnancy Impairs Glucose Homeostasis and Adipose Tissue Physiology in the Male Rat Offspring.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Article
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- Night shift work before and during pregnancy in relation to depression and anxiety in adolescent and young adult offspring.European journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Simulated shift work disrupts maternal circadian rhythms and metabolism, and increases gestation length in sheep.The Journal of physiology · 2019Article
- Melatonin profiles during the third trimester of pregnancy and health status in the offspring among day and night workers: A case series.Neurobiology of sleep and circadian rhythms · 2019Article
- Night Shift Work Before and During Pregnancy and Offspring Weight Outcomes Through Adolescence.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study aimed to investigate associations between maternal history of rotating night shift nursing work before pregnancy and number of night shifts worked during pregnancy with offspring weight outcomes from early life through adolescence.
methodsMore than 4,000 children, enrolled in the second phase of the Growing Up Today Study between 2004 and 2013, and their mothers participating in the Nurses' Health Study II were included in our analyses.
resultsChildren of women with and without a history of rotating night shift work before pregnancy were similar in birth weight and body size at age 5. However, for mothers with night shift work before pregnancy, their children had a modestly elevated risk of having overweight or obesity (relative risk = 1.11; 95% CI: 1.02-1.21), which was stronger for persistently having overweight or obesity during adolescence and early adulthood. Longer duration of rotating night shift work was not associated with any of these weight outcomes. Weight outcomes of children of women with versus without night shift work during pregnancy were similar, regardless of frequency of night shifts worked during pregnancy (all P > 0.09).
conclusionsOverall, nurses' night shift work before or during pregnancy did not affect offspring weight outcomes. Future larger studies should explore these associations in more detail.
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