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. 2024 Apr 4;10(8):e29080. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29080

Table 1.

Characteristics of cohort studies.

Authors Report distinction Study name Years of night shift work (range) Years of night shift work (point dose) Prostate cancer cases (total cases: 9366) Person-years (total person-years: 88,238,009) Risk ratio and 95% confidence interval
Akerstedt et al. (2012) [18] 1 Screening Across the Lifespan Twin (SALT) study 0 0 225 1957.5 1
1–5 2.5 42 365.4 1.02 (0.48–2.18)
6–10 7.5 19 165.3 1.97 (0.64–6.02)
11–20 15 22 191.4 0.88 (0.32–2.43)
21–45 32.5 24 208.8 1.05 (0.39–2.84)
Behrens et al. (2017) [19] 2 Heinz Nixdorf Recall Cohort Study (HNR) from the Ruhr area in Germany 0–1 0.5 44 13,511 1
1–10 5.5 11 2089 1.72 (0.88–3.35)
10–20 15 5 1031 1.68 (0.66–4.26)
>20 25 16 1606 3.76 (2.04–6.93)
Gapstur et al. (2014) [20] 3 Cancer Prevention Study–II Fixed day work 0 4497 6,465,182 1
Rotating shift work 23.31 268 422,487 1.13 (1–1.28)
Kubo et al. (2011) [21] 4 Health-care database of a Japanese corporation manufacturing innovative products based on chemistry and material sciences Day time work 0 13 93363.2 1
Shift work 25.3 4 21998.2 1.79 (0.57–5.68)
Kubo et al. (2006) [22] 5 Japan Collaborative Cohort study Daytime work 0 21 89,179 1
Rotating shift work 8.06 7 14,523 3 (1.2–7.7)
Schwartzbaum et al. (2007) [23] 6 Whole Swedish working population study No shift work 0 1267 39,940,394 1
Shift work 19 1319 39,940,394 1.04 (0.99–1.1)
Yong et al. (2014) [24] 7 Retrospective cohort in a German chemical company Day worker 0 191 152,190 1
Rotating shift worker 25 146 126,090 0.93 (0.71–1.21)
Berge et al. (2022) [25] 8 Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers (NOPW) cohort 0 0 117 20410.65 1
0–3 1.5 41 5950.03 1.18 (0.83–1.69)
3–9 6 48 5958.95 1.19 (0.86–1.66)
9–16 12.5 46 3397.82 1.38 (0.97–1.95)
16–19.5 17.75 15 578.6 1.92 (1.09–3.37)
19.5–33.3 26.4 9 343.46 1.9 (0.92–3.95)
McNeil et al. (2020) [26] 9 Alberta's Tomorrow Project cohort 0 0 165 41,558 1
0.1–5.9 3 89 28324.2 0.86 (0.66–1.12)
≥6 9 67 20320.6 0.88 (0.66–1.17)
Dickerman et al. (2016) [27] 10 Older Finnish Twin cohort No shift work 0 509 237,642 1
Rotating shift work 26.24 80 46,463 1 (0.7–1.2)
Hammer et al. (2015): stage 4 [28] 11 Male production workers cohort at BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Daytime workers 0 5 147,892 1
Shift workers 9.69 3 122,176 1.37 (0.25–6.19)
Hammer et al. (2015): stage X [28] 12 Male production workers cohort at BASF SE, Ludwigshafen Daytime workers 0 14 147,892 1
Shift workers 9.69 17 122,176 1.37 (0.61–3.1)