Sleep Duration and Cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study Cohort

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 9; p. e0161561
• Main Authors: Gu, Fangyi, Xiao, Qian, Chu, Lisa W, Yu, Kai, Matthews, Charles E, Hsing, Ann W, Caporaso, Neil E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 09.09.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Aged; Biology and Life Sciences; Bladder; Breast cancer; Cancer; Cancer research; Comorbidity; Confidence intervals; Diabetes; Diet; Endometrial cancer; Exercise; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Gastric cancer; Hazard assessment; Head and neck; Health aspects; Health risk assessment; Health risks; Helicobacter pylori; Humans; Incidence; Lymphoma; Lymphomas; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Myeloma; Neoplasms - epidemiology; Neoplasms - etiology; Ovarian cancer; Ovarian carcinoma; Population Surveillance; Proportional Hazards Models; Prostate cancer; Risk; Risk Factors; Self Report; Sleep; Statistical analysis; Stomach; Stomach cancer; Thyroid; Time Factors; United States - epidemiology; Urinary bladder; Womens health; Palo Alto California; United States > US; California

Very few studies have examined sleep duration in relation to cancer incidence with the exception of breast cancer. We assessed the associations between sleep duration and incidences of total and 18 site-specific cancers in the NIH-AARP Health and Diet Study cohort, with 173,327 men and 123,858 women...