Shift Work and Endocrine Disorders

Table 1

Number of articles and criteria of inclusion, according to the keywords used in this review.

Keywords	Number of; articles found	Final number; of articles^*
Obesity AND shift work	235	15
Diabetes AND shift work	73	8
Metabolic syndrome AND shift work	67	3
Cortisol AND shift work	56	16
Insulin resistance AND shift work	52	4

Criteria of inclusion: Papers published between January/2003 and March/2014; studies with humans; english language papers, quality of each study (best-evidence synthesis), type of shift (rotating and/or night shift).