September 8, 2024

expert reaction to an unpublished conference abstract on late ‘night owl’ chronotype and risk of higher body fat, and type 2 diabetes

An unpublished conference abstract presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) looks at the association between being a ‘night owl’ and risk of higher body fat and type 2 diabetes.

Prof Malcolm von Schantz, Professor of Chronobiology, Northumbria University, said:

“This study appears consistent with the substantial literature on the increased cardiometabolic risk burden on late chronotypes. It is difficult to say more than that until the detailed methods and results have been peer reviewed and published.”

The abstract ‘Associations between chronotype waist circumference, visceral fat, liver fat, and incidence of type 2 diabetes’ by J.H.P. van der Velde et al. was presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) The embargo was 23:01 UK time on Sunday 8th September.

Declared interests

Prof Malcolm von Schantz: None