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Occupational epidemiology

the hypothesis that light exposure at night suppresses melatonin and so raises breast cancer risk, later applied to night shift work.

In occupational epidemiology, light at night hypothesis refers to the hypothesis that light exposure at night suppresses melatonin and so raises breast cancer risk, later applied to night shift work. This meaning comes from Stevens (1987) in American Journal of Epidemiology.[1]

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References

  1. Stevens, R. G. (1987). Electric Power Use and Breast Cancer: a Hypothesis. American Journal of Epidemiology, 125(4), 556-561. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114569

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