Health warning for men who wake up for 30 minutes or more at night [Video]

Waking up in the night is a regular occurrence for some of us, but a new study shows that it can indicate a troubling health problem.

The study, which was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that men who woke up for at least half an hour in the night were up to 20% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer.

30,000 British men participated in the study at the US National Cancer Institute in Maryland. It involved wearing a watch monitor to measure any potential sleep disruption.

At the start of the study, none of the participants reported having prostate cancer. But in the post-study follow-up period, men who had at least 30 minutes of wakefulness at night were 15-20% more likely to develop prostate tumors.

More research needs to be done to cement this correlation, but broadly, this study shows us something that we …