Daylight Saving Time Messes With Your Body Clock

11 Mar 2012 12:44 #1 by ScienceChic
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Daylight Saving Time Messes With Your Body Clock
Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer
Date: 09 March 2012

A study, published in 2007 in the journal BMC Biology, combined surveys from 55,000 people in central Europe with data on 50 individuals' sleeping and wakefulness patterns for eight weeks around the shifts to and from daylight saving time. The researchers found people never fully adjust their circadian rhythms to the hour shift associated with daylight saving time (or, as it is known in Europe, summer time).

So what effects does the transition have? A cursory search indicates the evidence so far is mixed. <snip>

There is also evidence that heart attacks increase the first three weekdays after the transition to daylight saving in spring.


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