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
Active Locations (1)
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The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637