{"id":358446,"date":"2018-04-26T07:03:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T06:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/light-from-leds-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-26T07:03:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T06:03:56","slug":"light-from-leds-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/light-from-leds-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Light From LED\u2019s &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A study performed by an international team led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the \u201cla Caixa\u201d Foundation, reports a link between exposure to blue light at night and higher risk of developing breast and prostate cancer. Blue light is a range of the visible light spectrum emitted by most white LEDs and many tablet and phone screens. The results have been published in\u00a0<em>Environmental Health Perspectives<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWHO\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified night shift work as probably carcinogenic to humans. There is evidence pointing to an association between exposure to artificial light at night, disruption of the circadian rhythm, and breast and prostate cancers. With this study we sought to determine whether night exposure to light in cities can affect the development of these two types of cancer\u201d, explains Manolis Kogevinas, ISGlobal researcher and coordinator of the study. \u201cWe know that depending on its intensity and wave length, artificial light, particularly in the blue spectrum, can decrease melatonin production and secretion\u201d, says Martin Aub\u00e9, physics professor at C\u00c9GEP in Sherbrooke, Canada and study co-author.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The study was conducted within the framework of the MCC-Spain project cofunded by the \u2018Consorcio de Investigaci\u00f3n Biom\u00e9dica en Red de Epidemiolog\u00eda y Salud P\u00fablica\u2019 (CIBERESP), and includes medical and epidemiological data of more than 4,000 people between 20 and 85 years of age in 11 Spanish regions. Indoor exposure to artificial light was determined through personal questionnaires, while outdoor levels of artificial light were evaluated for Madrid and Barcelona, based on nocturnal images taken by astronauts aboard the International&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/04\/no_author\/study-light-from-energy-saving-leds-may-be-giving-us-cancer\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study performed by an international team led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the \u201cla Caixa\u201d Foundation, reports a link between exposure to blue light at night and higher risk of developing breast and prostate cancer. Blue light is a range of the visible light spectrum emitted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}