<p>This week parts of Australia are preparing to wind back their clocks to mark the ending of daylight saving time.</p><p>For a long time the country has been divided about the positives and the negatives of changing the clocks twice a year.</p><p>Norman and Tegan look into the health effects of this shift – from the impact on sleep to medical procedures and road accidents.</p><p>References:</p><ul><li><a href="https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/78/Supplement_3/91/6012430?login=true">Basic concepts and unique features of human circadian rhythms: implications for human health | Nutrition Reviews | Oxford Academic</a></li><li><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2753446">Are Daylight Saving Time Changes Bad for the Brain? | Cerebrovascular Disease | JAMA Neurology</a></li><li><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/8/3/404">Daylight Saving Time and Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Meta-Analysis</a></li><li><a href="https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(21)00375-0/abstract">Daylight savings time transitions and risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An interrupted time series analysis</a></li><li><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10815-023-02920-x">Embryo transfers performed during daylight savings time led to reduced live birth rates in older patients | Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics</a></li><li><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4364628/">Daylight saving time as a potential public health intervention</a></li><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23863092/">Does lowering evening rectal temperature to morning levels offset the diurnal variation in muscle force production?</a></li></ul>
