Night shift work surrounding pregnancy and offspring risk of atopic disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Night shift work surrounding pregnancy may contribute to the risk of developing atopic diseases in offspring due to alterations in the prenatal environment, from stress.

Objective

To examine the association of maternal night shift work surrounding pregnancy and offspring risk of developing atopic diseases from childhood to adolescence.

Methods

We examined the association between night shift work before and during pregnancy among 4,044 mothers in the Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII) and atopic dermatitis, asthma and hay fever risk in 4,813 of their offspring enrolled in the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS). Mothers reported whether GUTS participants had ever been diagnosed with atopic dermatitis, asthma or hay fever in the GUTS Mothers' questionnaire. Generalize

SUBMITTER: Rada S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7161965 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature