Night shift work, chronotype and prostate cancer risk in the MCC‐Spain case‐control study
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...For example, shift workers, particularly including nurses, air plane crews and miners have a higher prevalence of breast and prostate cancers [21–23]....
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...To increase efficiency and minimize selection bias, we performed multiple imputation of missing values using chained equations.(30) Multiple imputations were done separately for cases and controls....
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...Participants were contacted again and a phone interview was performed to collect missing information on jobs with rotating night shift work (exact time schedules for each shift, nights performed per month) and assess individual chronotype with the use of the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire (MCTQ).(29) In total, 2,104 subjects (1,208 controls and 896 cases) agreed to participate in this follow-up and completed the chronotype questionnaire....
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...Chronotype is an individual characteristic that describes the circadian phase and correlates with diurnal preference, the individual preference for morning or evening activity.(23,24) It has been suggested that chronotype may modify the risk for cancer since it has been associated to the capacity of night workers to adapt to nonday work schedules....
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...Chronotype and sleep habits depend on age, although there is evidence that chronotype tracks through life and current chronotype highly correlates with self-reported chronotype at adolescence and early adulthood.(23) We examined lifetime occupational history with detailed shift work characteristics for each job and used metrics such as cumulative duration and frequency....
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