TY - JOUR T1 - Shift work and diabetes: a meta-analysis JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 804 LP - 805 DO - 10.1136/oemed-2014-102469 VL - 71 IS - 11 AU - Rahman Shiri Y1 - 2014/11/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/71/11/804.2.abstract N2 - In a meta-analysis, Gan et al 1 found a stronger association between shift work and diabetes for men than for women. In that meta-analysis, three studies contributed to the pooled estimate by 90% and nine studies by 10% only. Studies conducted among women were large-to-medium sized (3 studies, N=179 891), while studies conducted among men were small-to-medium sized (9 studies, N=24 629). It seems that gender difference in the magnitude of the association between shift work and diabetes is due to … ER -