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The researchers explained the danger of night work

Исследователи объяснили, чем опасна ночная работаNight schedule is dangerous for health.

Elderly people, moonlighting as retired guards and watchmen, be vigilant! As it turned out, a long work in night kills. It is found by the group of experts and scientists from several American universities.

They conducted a study involving 189 000 volunteers of a female. By questioning experts dismantled their work schedule for the last 24 years. And in the end was discovered a close connection between the work moving shifts, which implies the outputs to work sometimes at night, and coronary insufficiency..

Last known to be often caused by among other things, and problems with blood vessels, for example, thrombotic stenosis, coronary artery dissection, compression of the vessel by the spikes. Also coronary insufficiency is the basis of coronary heart disease, but also in other diseases with lesions of the coronary arteries (coronaria with vasculitis and myocarditis, stenosis of the orifices of the coronary arteries in the aorta and aortic heart diseases). Coronary heart disease is a disturbance of blood supply to the myocardium due to coronary lesions.

So, returning to the study. It was found that women who work three or more night shifts per month for ten years have an increased risk of this disease. At least 15-18 percent higher.

All is simple: shot down by a daily schedule of the biological clock constantly violates the natural rhythms of the human body that causes the development of chronic diseases.

However, doctors say that amid such dismal opening there is good news. It turns out that the risk factor (as opposed to high weight and poor nutrition) are easy to fix. It is too late, of course. You just need to give up the job.

And one more thing – the conclusions of this study apply only to women, for men this effect is not covered.
By the way, years ago, scientists conducted a similar study. But then it was conducted by specialists of the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and at that time they studied the relationship between unplanned work and cancer. And the experiment took place with participation of two volunteer groups: people from the first group, 75 people worked in the night shift, people from the second, 42 the employee was of normal daily schedule. All the participants were aged from 22 to 64 years. And they all worked in different environments and different spheres of activity.

Researchers monitored the hormone levels of the participants for several years and found that those who worked nights, had higher levels of progestogen and androgen in comparison with other people.

Which in turn poses a threat to the development of cancer.

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