Sleep duration and the risk of prostate cancer: the Ohsaki Cohort Study
British Journal of CancerPublished 10 June 2008Open access
Masako Kakizaki, Koetsu Inoue, Shinichi Kuriyama, Toshimasa Sone, Kaori Matsuda‐Ohmori, Naoki Nakaya
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In a prospective study of prostate cancer incidence, sleep duration was associated with lower risk; the multivariate hazard ratio of men who slept ⩾9 h per day compared with those who slept less was 0.48.
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In a prospective study of prostate cancer incidence (127 cases), among 22 320 Japanese men, sleep duration was associated with lower risk; the multivariate hazard ratio of men who slept >or=9 h per day compared with those who slept less was 0.48 (95% confidence interval: 0.29-0.79, P for trend=0.02).
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