ArticleNature communications2022
Daylight saving time affects European mortality patterns.
Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of epidemiological studies into daylight-saving time & health identifying beneficial & adverse effects.European journal of epidemiology · 2026Pooled it
- Forensic mortality in northern Tunisia in 2023: a cross-sectional study comparing ICD-11 and ICD-10 coding.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Retraction Note: Daylight saving time affects European mortality patterns.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The British Sleep Society position statement on Daylight Saving Time in the UK.Journal of sleep research · 2025Review
- Assessing the best hour to start the day: an appraisal of seasonal daylight saving time.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Daylight saving time and mortality-proceed with caution.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The effect of temporal data aggregation to assess the impact of changing temperatures in Europe: an epidemiological modelling study.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Article
- All cause and cause specific mortality associated with transition to daylight saving time in US: nationwide, time series, observational study.BMJ medicine · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
- Retraction · 2026-05-28Concerns/Issues about Methods · Concerns/Issues about Results and/or Conclusions · Investigation by Journal/Publisher · Investigation by Third Party · Objections by Author(s) · Unreliable Results and/or Conclusions · · see also: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45837-4
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9 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Daylight saving time (DST) consists in a one-hour advancement of legal time in spring offset by a backward transition of the same magnitude in fall. It creates a minimal circadian misalignment that could disrupt sleep and homoeostasis in susceptible individuals and lead to an increased incidence of pathologies and accidents during the weeks immediately following both transitions. How this shift affects mortality dynamics on a large population scale remains, however, unknown. This study examines the impact of DST on all-cause mortality in 16 European countries for the period 1998-2012. It shows that mortality decreases in spring and increases in fall during the first two weeks following each DST transition. Moreover, the alignment of time data around DST transition dates revealed a septadian mortality pattern (lowest on Sundays, highest on Mondays) that persists all-year round, irrespective of seasonal variations, in men and women aged above 40.
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