TRIBUNCIREBON.COM – Night shift work is not only done by men, because there are so many woman that work in the evening.
However work at night many are associated with health problems, such as obesity and sleep disorders, even cancer.
Quoted by TribunJabar.Id from Kompas.Com, a number of researchers in China found that women who are work on the night shift have an increased risk cancer up to 19 percent, compared to women who didn’t work on a night shift.
When researchers look further into types cancer these, they found that the women were work night shifts for longer periods had a 41 percent higher risk of developing it cancer skin, 32 percent cancer breasts and 18 percent risk cancer digestive tract.
The highest risk is found in a nurse work on a night shift.
Growth risk cancer breasts that threatened them by 58 percent, higher than those of nurses who did not work on a night shift.
Xuelei Ma, senior author and assistant professor at Sichuan University, said the older the women were work on night shifts, their risks are exposed cancer will be bigger.
“For every five years work on night shifts, the risk is hit cancer breasts, for example, were 3.3 percent higher, “he said.
There are several factors that make night workers more at risk cancer.
However, previous studies suggest that hormonal disturbances could be one of the triggers.
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