Table 1.
Number of articles and criteria of inclusion, according to the keywords used in this review.
| Keywords | Number of articles found |
Final number of articles* |
|---|---|---|
| Obesity AND shift work | 235 | 15 |
| Diabetes AND shift work | 73 | 8 |
| Metabolic syndrome AND shift work | 67 | 3 |
| Cortisol AND shift work | 56 | 16 |
| Insulin resistance AND shift work | 52 | 4 |
∗Criteria of inclusion: Papers published between January/2003 and March/2014; studies with humans; english language papers, quality of each study (best-evidence synthesis), type of shift (rotating and/or night shift).