Reuters
The study of more than 40,000 Danish women who worked during pregnancy found that those who consistently worked the graveyard shift were 85 percent more likely than daytime workers to suffer a miscarriage relatively late in pregnancy or have a stillbirth.
Other job shifts -- including rotating shifts that required some overnight work -- were not related to late pregnancy loss, according to findings published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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