A team of Spanish scientists published a new study in Environmental Health Perspectives that reveals how the blue light of street lighting affects people's cancer risk..

For the study, scientists began to compare the body parameters of 2,000 people in the control group and 2,000 people diagnosed with breast cancer or prostate cancer living in Madrid and Barcelona.. According to scientists, the blue light of street lamps increased the risk of developing breast cancer by an average of 1.5 times and prostate cancer by 2 times.. The lead author of the work, Alejandro Sanchez de Miguel, says that this work is a breakthrough, because no one has studied blue light so closely before..

In addition, scientists focus the attention of journalists on the fact that they did not study blue light in smartphones and LED devices..

But due to the similar characteristics of the phenomenon, he does not undertake to exclude the danger posed by gadgets.. Experts attribute this to the fact that blue light reduces the production of melatonin in the brain, which regulates the body's circadian rhythm..

But melatonin is an important hormone for creating overall " To protect people from the disease, city authorities need to replace street lighting lamps so that their color temperature is as low as possible..

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