EHJ: Do you work the night shift regularly? When the risk of atrial fibrillation and coronary heart disease increases significantly!

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With the intensification of social production pressure and the refinement of the division of labor, shift work has gradually become a common phenomenon in modern society.

There is growing evidence that shift work, especially night shift work, has a detrimental effect on personal health and organ function, and that night shift work may disrupt the body's circadian rhythms, affecting the body's metabolism and hormone secretion [1]. This effect may be even more pronounced if you are in a night shift environment for a long time.

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Recently, Ningjian Wang et al. published a paper in the European Heart Journal, an authoritative journal in the cardiovascular field, aiming to find out whether current and past night shift work is associated with occasional atrial fibrillation (AF) and whether this correlation is altered by genetic vulnerability [2]. Let's take a look at today's newsletter!