A study by IIS Aragón tries to demonstrate how working shifts harms metabolic health

The Primary Dyslipidemia group at IIS Aragón is looking for volunteers for this study and these weeks it has been in the news in various media outlets. We share with you the interview that aired on Onda Cero Aragón.

The Aragon Health Research Institute is looking for volunteers for a study in which nutrition and health will be related to people who work shifts.

There are few studies that refer to the nutritional intervention among those who work shifts and suffer from obesity. The project of the Primary Dyslipemias group of the Health Research Institute of Aragon (IIS Aragón) deals precisely with this matter. Itziar Lamiquiz, professor at the University of Zaragoza and researcher at IIS Aragón, explains that they start from the hypothesis that, depending on what time of day protein is ingested, it can help improve metabolic health.

To test this hypothesis, a study will be carried out in which the three diets:

• a diet low calorie, but rich in protein, specifically with dinners that are high in protein
• a diet hypocaloric and hyperprotein with dinners that contain a lower percentage of protein
• a diet normoprotein hypocaloric.

It has been shown that working shifts is not good for your health. There are studies that indicate how people who work with these changing schedules from time to time can cause, from a imbalance of biological rhythms such as insomnia, sleep apnea or narcolepsy; coronary heart diseases or pathologies such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, depression or immunological disorders.

Volunteers wanted

In order to carry out this study, the Aragon Health Research Institute is looking for volunteers who meet the following requirements:

• people with excess body weight
• high fasting glucose
• which work in shifts that includes the night
• Those who are taking sleeping pills, consume a large amount of coffee or are taking antidiabetic drugs with the exception of metformin will not be able to participate.

Those who want to have more information have organized information sessions in the main classroom of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zaragoza on February 5 (in the morning and afternoon). You can also request information through email studioturnos2024@gmail.com

Source: Onda Cero