Shift workers carry a disproportionately higher burden of age-related diseases, including hypertension, high cholesterol, gastrointestinal problems, chronic inflammation, colon cancer, and diabetes.

“although one in five people are shipped workers they carry disproportionately heavier burden of disease because almost all age-related disease that we can think of whether it's high blood pressure usually high blood pressure starts in 40s or 50s high cholesterol um gastrointestinal problem in digestion um chronic inflammation of the colon and then even colon cancer in many cases and then of course diabetes all of these are disproportionately more prevalent among ship workers”