Night shift linked to late pregnancy loss

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Pregnant women who regularly work the night shift may have an increased risk of a miscarriage late in pregnancy or a stillbirth, a new study suggests.

The study by Jin Liang Zhu of more than 40,000 Danish women who worked during pregnancy found that those who consistently worked the graveyard shift were 85 per cent more likely than daytime workers to suffer a miscarriage relatively late in pregnancy or have a stillbirth.

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