Heart disease, cancer risk higher when working in rotating night shifts, study

Heart disease and cancer risk is higher when working in rotating night shifts, the research has found. Shift workers commonly undergo circadian misalignment, which is the disruption of a person’s natural body clock typically governed by daylight and darkness cycles. Shift work calls for individuals to be awake during times when the body is intended to sleep, and it has been associated with hypertension, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease.

New findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences helped to explain how shift work contributes to cardiovascular disease. The researchers found that short-term circadian misalignment, which occurs during shift work, increases an employee’s risk of cardiovascular disease and inflammatory consequences.

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