TY - JOUR T1 - Author response: letter on ‘shift work and diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis of observational studies’ JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 805 LP - 806 DO - 10.1136/oemed-2014-102512 VL - 71 IS - 11 AU - Zuxun Lu AU - Yong Gan Y1 - 2014/11/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/71/11/805.abstract N2 - We thank Dr Shiri for his valuable comments and analysis1 on our article2 and are pleased to have the opportunity to respond. Our meta-analysis made a timely and novel contribution to the literature about associations of shift work on diabetes risk. Although some limitations may exist in our study, they do not materially affect the internal validity of our result.12 studies involving 226 652 participants and 14 595 patients with newly diagnosed diabetes were included in our meta-analysis, which combined the all published observational studies possibly including … ER -