Journal of the American Heart Association

Irregular daily eating times and eating schedule shifts are linked to higher heart and metabolism risk in women

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Abstract

Women (n=115, mean age: 33±12 years) showed that greater variability in eating patterns is associated with increased body mass index and blood pressure.

  • Higher eating jetlag in start time, nightly fasting duration, and percentage of calories consumed after 8 pm is related to increased body mass index and waist circumference at baseline.
  • A 10% increase in the variability of calories consumed after 8 pm predicts greater body mass index (β, 0.52) and waist circumference (β, 1.73) over time.
  • Each 30-minute increase in variability of nightly fasting duration is associated with increased diastolic blood pressure (β, 0.95).
  • Increased weekday-weekend differences in nightly fasting duration correlate with higher systolic (β, 0.58) and diastolic blood pressure (β, 0.45).
  • For hemoglobin A1c, every 30-minute increase in eating start and end time variability predicts increases of 0.09% and 0.06%, respectively, while a 10% increase in calories consumed after 5 pm variability predicts a 0.23% increase.

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