{"id":218063,"date":"2025-07-16T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/circadian-disruption-by-night-light-linked-to-multiple-cardiovascular-outcomes"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:08:53","slug":"circadian-disruption-by-night-light-linked-to-multiple-cardiovascular-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/circadian-disruption-by-night-light-linked-to-multiple-cardiovascular-outcomes","title":{"rendered":"Circadian disruption by night light linked to multiple cardiovascular outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/circadian-disruption-by-night-light-linked-to-multiple-cardiovascular-outcomes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute researchers, along with colleagues in the UK and U.S., have linked brighter night-time light exposure to elevated risks of five major cardiovascular diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Circadian rhythms govern fluctuations in blood pressure, heart rate, platelet activation, hormone secretion, and glucose metabolism. Long-term disruption of those rhythms in animal and human studies have produced myocardial fibrosis, hypertension, inflammation, and impaired autonomic balance. Previous research efforts relied largely on satellite-derived estimates or small cohorts using bedroom or wrist light sensors, leaving personal exposure patterns uncharted at population scale.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, \u201cPersonal night light exposure predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases in 88,000 individuals,\u201d posted on medRxiv, researchers conducted a prospective cohort analysis to assess whether day and night light exposure predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases and whether relationships vary with genetic susceptibility, sex, and age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute researchers, along with colleagues in the UK and U.S., have linked brighter night-time light exposure to elevated risks of five major cardiovascular diseases. Circadian rhythms govern fluctuations in blood pressure, heart rate, platelet activation, hormone secretion, and glucose metabolism. Long-term disruption of those rhythms in animal and human studies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}