Your sleeping habits have been linked to breast cancer.
People who often wake up very early in the morning have lower chances of getting this ailment.
While your sleeping habits might expose you to cancer, this is not always the case. CNN notes that in one out of 100 women who normally wake up in the morning developed cancer as compared to two out of 100 women who considered themselves as "late risers."
Luca Magnani points out that it is just a mere factor as there are other factors that have a greater impact than it
"It is important to note that these data do not suggest in any way that modifying sleep habits could eventually lead to a decrease in the risk of breast cancer," Luca Magnani, a senior research fellow in the Department of Surgery & Cancer at Imperial College London.
"What they suggest is that it appears that the risk of breast cancer is associated with a genetic (thus not modifiable) trait that is in itself associated with a "morning" or "night" preference -- what we call 'larks' and 'owls'," he added.
As mentioned earlier, sleep is not the only factor, other factors include heavy alcohol intake, obesity among others.
"The main lifestyle risk factors that we know are clearly associated with breast cancer are alcohol intake and obesity or high Body Mass Index," says Caroline Relton, professor of epigenetic epidemiology at the University of Bristol.
"Sleep is likely to be an important risk factor for breast cancer, but it isn't as large as other well-established risk factors like BMI or alcohol," said lead author Dr Rebecca Richmond, a researcher at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol.
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