From ABC:
More bad news for late-shift workers: Their odd hours may be raising their risk of heart attack and stroke.
So says a new, large-scale study in the British Medical Journal that adds these two problems — which fit into a broader category known as vascular disease — to the previously known risks of shift work. Previous research had suggested that working the graveyard shift, the swing shift or any irregular shift other than the traditional 9-to-5 is linked to high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.
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