Study of association between beverage consumption pattern and lipid profile in shift workers

Forty one of participants completed all aspects of the study. Two clusters were emerged, labeled descriptively as Conventional including “high Sugar-sweetened drinkers” and “low sugar drinkers”. The highest intake of water was in cluster 1 (1170.9 ml/day) even this amount is much less than the daily recommended amounts. There were significant differences in triglyceride levels among day and night shift workers. According to the results, there is inadequacy of water and high sugar beverage intake among the shift workers which it is a potential risk of some related chronic diseases such as metabolic syndrome with high triglyceride level in the future.