Status:

COMPLETED

Extended Work Schedules, Sleep Loss and Health

Lead Sponsor:

University of Chicago

Conditions:

Sleep

Eligibility:

All Genders

21-39 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

This study aims to determine whether abnormal bodily rhythms contribute to elevate the risk of diabetes, independently of the amount of sleep loss.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • normal healthy men and women between the ages of 21 years and 39 years (inclusive) with normal weight (i.e., body mass index under 28 kg/m2 in men, 27 kg/m2 in women)
  • normal findings on clinical examination, normal results on routine laboratory tests, normal EKG, normal glucose tolerance test, negative pregnancy test for women
  • no personal history of psychiatric or endocrine illness
  • no personal history of sleep disorder, usual total sleep time of at least 7 hours
  • only female volunteers with normal ovulatory cycles will be included

Exclusion

  • subjects with irregular life habits (shiftworkers and subjects having traveled across time zones less than one month prior to the beginning of the baseline study)
  • subjects taking any medication (including hormonal contraceptive therapy), and smokers are excluded
  • subjects with significant sleep apnea (apnea index above 10) or significant arousal-associated periodic leg movements are excluded

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2003

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 1 2009

Estimated Enrollment :

49 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00989534

Start Date

January 1 2003

End Date

September 1 2009

Last Update

October 3 2016

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The University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637