Sleep duration and the risk of breast cancer: the Ohsaki Cohort Study
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- 23 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in British Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 99 (9), 1502-1505
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604684
Abstract
In a prospective study of 23 995 Japanese women, short sleep duration was associated with higher risk of breast cancer (143 cases), compared with women who slept 7 h per day, the multivariate hazard ratio of those who slept 6 h per day was 1.62 (95% confidence interval: 1.05–2.50; P for trend=0.03).Keywords
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