ArticleThe Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism2019
Associations of Outdoor Temperature, Bright Sunlight, and Cardiometabolic Traits in Two European Population-Based Cohorts.
Article in The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of temperature and humidity on hospitalizations for metabolic syndrome with cerebral infarction among older adults in Panzhihua: a distributed lag non-linear model analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Sex Differences in Seasonal Variation in Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components: A 10-Year National Health Screening Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The Influence of a Christian, Seventh-Day Adventist Lifestyle Based on Religious Principles on the Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Beneficial health effects of ultraviolet radiation: expert review and conference report.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2025Review
- The mediating role of the TyG index in the relationship between circadian syndrome and cancer among middle-aged and elderly Chinese.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- Correlation Studies Between Double-Stranded DNA and Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of diabetes research · 2025Article
- Article
- Inside the Alterations of Circulating Metabolome in Antarctica: The Adaptation to Chronic Hypoxia.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Higher ambient temperature is associated with worsening of HbA1c levels in a Saudi population.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2021Article
- Linking type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiac hypertrophy and depression in a diurnal animal model.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The Circadian Syndrome: is the Metabolic Syndrome and much more!Journal of internal medicine · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
contextSeasonal variation in cold and light exposure may influence metabolic health.
objectiveWe assessed the associations of bright sunlight and outdoor temperature with measures of glucose and lipid metabolism in two populations of middle-aged European subjects.
designCross-sectional study.
settingTwo population-based European cohorts.
participantsMiddle-aged nondiabetic subjects from the Oxford Biobank (OBB; N = 4327; mean age, 41.4 years) and the Netherlands Epidemiology of Obesity (NEO) study (N = 5899; mean age, 55.6 years).
interventionsData on outdoor bright sunlight and temperature collected from local weather stations.
main outcome measuresInsulin resistance and fasting lipid levels. Multivariable regression analyses were adjusted for age, sex, percentage body fat, season, and either outdoor temperature or bright sunlight.
resultsIn the OBB cohort, increased bright sunlight exposure was associated with lower fasting insulin [-1.27% (95% CI, -2.09 to -0.47%) per extra hour of bright sunlight], lower homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance (-1.36%; 95% CI, -2.23 to -0.50), lower homeostatic model assessment for β-cell function (-0.80%; 95% CI, -1.31 to -0.30), and lower triglyceride (-1.28%; 95% CI, -2.07 to -0.50) levels. In the NEO cohort generally unidirectional but weaker associations were observed. No associations between outdoor temperature and measures of glucose or lipid metabolism were detected following adjustment for bright sunlight.
conclusionsBright sunlight, but not outdoor temperature, might be associated with increased insulin sensitivity and lower triglyceride levels.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.