Trabajo durante la noche y alteraciones en la melatonina en trabajadoras expuestas: revisión de la evidencia reciente

Introduction. Shift work, including working night hours, has become an increasingly common form in today’s society. The effects on the health of exposed workers to shift work have been widely described; however one of the most serious effects is the carcinogenic potential that this may pose to workers under this modality. One of the proposed mechanisms to explain this association is through the exposure to light at night, which among others, disrupts the synthesis of melatonin, a hormone involved in the development of certain tumors in animal models and occupationally