How Night Shift Work Increases Cancer Risk - Neuroscience News

Night-shifts destroy the natural 24-hour biological rhythm in the activity of certain cancer-related genes, resulting in more vulnerability to DNA damage and causing a mistiming in the DNA repair mechanisms in shift workers.
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How Sleep Deprivation Affects Our Genes - Neuroscience News

Shift Work and the Risk of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity Among Patients With Hypertension: A Prospective Cohort Study of UK Biobank

Human pathophysiology due to shift work. In this paper, we discuss four

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Effects of circadian misalignment on cognition in chronic shift workers

Sleep Tips for Shift Workers: How to Get the Rest You Need

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Frontiers Association Between Night-Shift Work and Cancer Risk: Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Association between metabolic risk, oxidative stress and rotating shift work in a tertiary health care facility - Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health

Night shift workers are at greater risk for obesity, diabetes, cancer—but why? - Genetic Literacy Project