Everybody knows that shift work (read night shift primarily) is bad for you because it usually disrupts your life style and can contribute to things like diabetes and high blood pressure.
And now an analysis of 34 studies involving 2 million workers adds more warnings according to the BBC on its Web site.
The warning, from Canadian and Norwegian researchers as reported in the British Medical Journal looked at coronary events, including heart attacks as well as strokes and concluded that these
incidents including 175, 359 coronary events of some kinds, 6, 598 heart attacks and 1,854 strokes were more common in shift workers than other people.
They did say, however, workers faced a slightly higher risk of these types of attacks and that the shift work ( I assume primarily night shift work) did not contribute to a higher mortality rate from these things.
That is a little confusing, but anyway their suggestions included things like limiting shift work apparently.
For more information click on www.bbc.co.uk/news/health
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