Night work and breast cancer in women: A Swedish cohort study

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^a,b   Knutsson, Anders ^c   Narusyte, Jurgita ^a   Svedberg, Pia ^a   Kecklund, Göran ^b,d   Alexanderson, Kristina ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COFFEE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; NIGHT WORK; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHIFT WORKER; TOBACCO USE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN; TWINS; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 84929377773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008127     Document Type: Article

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