On Tuesday 24 June at 14:00, Jesper Medom Vestergaard defends his PhD dissertation entitled "Working evening and night shifts and risk of coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, and breast cancer, a 14-years follow-up study of payroll data".

A new ph.d. study from Aarhus University cannot confirm that night and evening shift work increases the risk of coronary heart disease or myocardial infarction, but provides some evidence that long-term night work increases the risk of breast cancer. The ph.d. study differs from previous studies, suggesting such effects, by detailed night and evening shift work information from payroll registers and extensive national health register data from a large population that should not be vulnerable to biases. A separate study shows that women with breast cancer better recall previous night work than women without breast cancer. This questions the results reported in previous studies of the association between night work and breast cancer relying on self-reported night work.

The summary is written by the PhD student.

The defence is public and takes place in Auditorium G206-142, Aarhus University Hospital. Please see the press release for more information. 

Contact

PhD student Jesper Medom Vestergaard
Mail: jespvest@rm.dk
Phone: (+45) 78450900

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