Rebuttal from Saurabh S. Thosar, Nicole P. Bowles and Andrew W. McHill.
Rebuttal from Saurabh S. Thosar, Nicole P. Bowles and Andrew W. McHill.
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10.1113/jp282835
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2022-04
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Thosar SS;Bowles NP;McHill AW
In this debate, Drs. Ritchie and Broussard argue that insufficient sleep is primarily responsible for the increased risk for metabolic disease in shift workers. They have systematically highlighted the deleterious effects of sleep loss on cardiometabolic health, to which we agree. However, their argument that sleep loss is the primary driver for poor health in shift-work is somewhat undercut by the fact that they based their reasoning on studies that 1) are unable to separate the effects of circadian misalignment and insufficient sleep, 2) are unclear about the distinction between insufficient and disrupted sleep, which potentially act through separate mechanisms, 3) postulate circadian misalignment as the mechanism for metabolic dysfunction in shift workers, and 4) only investigate the acute effects of sleep loss (Åkerstedt, 2003; Broussard et al., 2015; Anothaisintawee et al., 2016; Brouwer et al., 2020; Peñalvo et al., 2021).To address the authors’ claim that shift work and sleep are inextricably linked, we point to work in their argument that either controls for sleep duration while investigating circadian misalignment or demonstrates the metabolic impact of circadian misalignment independent of sleep. Meta-analysis by (Anothaisintawee et al., 2016) concluded that shift work remains associated with increased risk for metabolic disease even after controlling for traditional risk factors, including physical activity, smoking, dietary choices, and alcohol consumption. While the investigators of the meta-analysis control for likely culprits, they do not control for circadian misalignment, an inherent insidious trait of shift-work and impossible to separate. Moreover, this meta-analysis also found that long sleep is associated with a higher