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Night Shift: Till now there have been many such studies in which it has been claimed that people working in night shift face many problems. According to earlier studies, people working in night shifts are more at risk of stomach problems, back problems and lifestyle related diseases. Now a new study has claimed that people who work in night shifts or work till late night, may have memory related diseases in middle age. That is, the memory (mind) power of the people working in the night shift is greatly reduced.
Trouble with shift after 9 am to 5 pm
According to the news of DailyMail, it was found in the study that among those who were working in night shift, 79 percent of the people had some problems related to memory in middle age. In earlier studies, it was found that the health of the people working in any shift from 9 am to 5 pm is badly affected. Defects related to memory have come to the fore for the first time. In this study, 47,811 people working in night shift were tested. They were asked to give a cognitive function test. One in five respondents to the study reported that they had to deal with shift work in their career.
risk of heart problems
A team from York University in Canada has studied at this time which has been published in the journal Plos One. The study found that those who had to work in shifts, had to face problems related to cognitive perception in the future, this disturbed the circadian rhythm of the person, which encouraged neurological disorders. Russell Foster, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, told that the things that have come out in the study regarding the night shift are very important. Such findings have come to the fore in both laboratory and field studies.
For example, many types of health related problems were seen in the pilot operating long distance aircraft. Earlier it was also found that the heart beat of people working in night shift becomes very fast. It affects women more. In this, the risk of coronary heart disease also increases in people working in night shift. After this study, there has also been a decline in the number of night shift workers in Britain. In 2016, 9.5 million people worked in the night shift in Britain, which fell to 8.7 million in 2022.
