Rotating Night Shift Work, Sleep, and Thyroid Cancer Risk in the Nurses' Health Study 2.

ABSTRACT: Night shift work has been associated with breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer, but evidence on other types of cancer is limited. We prospectively evaluated the association of rotating night shift work, sleep duration, and sleep difficulty with thyroid cancer risk in the Nurses' Health Study 2 (NHS2). We assessed rotating night shift work duration (years) at baseline and throughout follow-up (1989-2015) and sleep characteristics in 2001. Cox proportional hazard models, adjusted for potential confounders, were used to calculate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for (a) shift work duration, (b) sleep duration, and (c) difficulty falling or staying asleep. We stratified the analyses of night shift work by sleep duration and sleep difficulty. Over 26 years of follow-up, 5

SUBMITTER: Papantoniou K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10705158 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature