A new study has found that after week eight of pregnancy, women who had worked two or more night shifts the previous week had a 32% higher risk of miscarriage.
Carried out by Danish researchers, the new study looked at payroll data gathered from 22,744 pregnant women working in public services, mainly hospitals, in Denmark.
Moreover, the risk of miscarriage increased with the number of night shifts worked per week, and also by numbers of consecutive night shifts.As an observational study, the researchers point out that they cannot establish causal effect. They also note that the data on miscarriages was incomplete.
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