effects of working late night shifts
Night shift workers -- specifically those who work 12-hour shifts -- are also more likely to smoke, abuse alcohol and suffer from fatigue. Early research shows that working the night shift may increase the risk of developing certain forms of cancer.
appetite, nausea) in individuals work - ing more than 30 night-shift hours in a 28-day period. The researchers also found a 3-fold increase in the risk of a gastrointestinal diagnosis (eg, colon polyps, stomach ulcers, ulcerative coli-tis) in evening-shift workers. Another study showed that approx - imately 50% of permanent night-shift