ArticleAdvances in integrative medicine2017
Medical hypothesis: Light at night is a factor worth considering in critical care units.
Article in Advances in integrative medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Geo-behavioural predictors of diagnosed hypertension in Igbo Ora Area, Oyo State, Nigeria.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Effects of dim light at night in C57BL/6 J mice on recovery after spinal cord injury.Experimental neurology · 2024Article
- Chronic exposure to dim light at night disrupts cell-mediated immune response and decreases longevity in aged female mice.Chronobiology international · 2022Article
- Disruptions of Circadian Rhythms and Thrombolytic Therapy During Ischemic Stroke Intervention.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Dim light at night exacerbates stroke outcome.The European journal of neuroscience · 2020Article
- Effect on nurse and patient experience: overnight use of blue-depleted illumination.BMJ open quality · 2019Article
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Abstract
Exposure to light at night is not an innocuous consequence of modernization. There are compelling data linking long-term exposure to occupational and environmental light at night with serious health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. However, far less is known about the physiological and behavioral effects of acute exposure to light at night. Among healthy volunteers, acute night-time light exposure increases systolic blood pressure and inflammatory markers in the blood, and impairs glucose regulation. Whether critically ill patients in a hospital setting experience the same physiological shifts in response to evening light exposure is not known. This paper reviews the available data on light at night effects on health and wellbeing, and argues that the data are sufficiently compelling to warrant studies of how lighting in intensive care units may be influencing patient recovery.
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