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Letters Shift work and diabetes risk

Authors’ reply to Skovenborg and Manfredini and colleagues

BMJ 2019; 364 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l179 (Published 16 January 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;364:l179
  1. Zhilei Shan, research fellow,
  2. Shilpa N Bhupathiraju, research scientist
  1. Department of Nutrition, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
  1. zshan{at}hsph.harvard.edu

We appreciate the thoughtful comments from Skovenborg and Manfredini and colleagues on our study about shift work, unhealthy lifestyle, and type 2 diabetes.11011

We did not include alcohol intake as a lifestyle factor, but we adjusted for categories of alcohol intake in our multivariable models. The inverse associations between alcohol consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes …

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