Trial reportCell metabolism2022
Feasibility of time-restricted eating and impacts on cardiometabolic health in 24-h shift workers: The Healthy Heroes randomized control trial.
Trial report in Cell metabolism, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03533023 (Optimizing Circadian Rhythms by Regulating Eating Patterns to Reduce Cardiometabolic Disease Risk Among Firefighters--The Healthy Heroes Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 117 papers, 15 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Optimizing Circadian Rhythms by Regulating Eating Patterns to Reduce Cardiometabolic Disease Risk Among Firefighters--The Healthy Heroes Study
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117 citing papers in PubMed, 15 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 161 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review of Nutrition Interventions for Shift Workers, With Subgroup Analysis of First Responder Populations.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026Pooled it
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- Intermittent Fasting for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Risks: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.Current nutrition reports · 2025Pooled it
- The Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Inflammatory Markers in Adults: A Systematic Review and Pairwise and Network Meta-Analyses.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight and other cardiometabolic risk factors: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2025Pooled it
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- The impact of time-restricted eating on health-related quality of life: a systematic literature review.Nutrition reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of workplace health promotion programs for industrial workers: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Disrupting the clock: meta-analysis of irregular night shifts and migraine, proposing shift work migraine disorder with chronobiology strategies.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Meal Timing and Anthropometric and Metabolic Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2024Pooled it
- Circadian alignment of food intake and glycaemic control by time-restricted eating: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2024Pooled it
- Daily Duration of Eating for Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
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- The effects of time-restricted eating on sleep in adults: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- The effects of time-restricted eating for patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- The swift study: dietary profiles of night shift workers characterised by overweight and obesity.European journal of nutrition · 2026Trial
- A Qualitative Exploration of Facilitators and Barriers to Early Time-Restricted Eating: Insights From a Randomised Controlled Trial.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Trial
- An exposomics analysis of 125 biomarkers of exposure to food contaminants and biomarkers of oxidative stress: a randomized cross-over chrononutrition trial of healthy adults.Environment international · 2025Trial
- Time-Restricted Eating and Sleep, Mood, and Quality of Life in Adults With Overweight or Obesity: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Daytime eating during simulated night work mitigates changes in cardiovascular risk factors: secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial.Nature communications · 2025Trial
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Abstract
Over a quarter of the workforce in industrialized countries does shift work, which increases the risk for cardiometabolic disease. Yet shift workers are often excluded from lifestyle intervention studies to reduce this risk. In a randomized control trial with 137 firefighters who work 24-h shifts (23-59 years old, 9% female), 12 weeks of 10-h time-restricted eating (TRE) was feasible, with TRE participants decreasing their eating window (baseline, mean 14.13 h, 95% CI 13.78-14.47 h; intervention, 11.13 h, 95% CI 10.73-11.54 h, p = 3.29E-17) with no adverse effects, and improved quality of life assessed via SF-36 (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03533023). Compared to the standard of care (SOC) arm, TRE significantly decreased VLDL particle size. In participants with elevated cardiometabolic risks at baseline, there were significant reductions in TRE compared to SOC in glycated hemoglobin A1C and diastolic blood pressure. For individuals working a 24-h shift schedule, TRE is feasible and can improve cardiometabolic health, especially for individuals with increased risk. VIDEO ABSTRACT.
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