- Home
- Medical news & Guidelines
- Anesthesiology
- Cardiology and CTVS
- Critical Care
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Diabetes and Endocrinology
- ENT
- Gastroenterology
- Medicine
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Obstretics-Gynaecology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Pediatrics-Neonatology
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Urology
- Laboratory Medicine
- Diet
- Nursing
- Paramedical
- Physiotherapy
- Health news
- Fact Check
- Bone Health Fact Check
- Brain Health Fact Check
- Cancer Related Fact Check
- Child Care Fact Check
- Dental and oral health fact check
- Diabetes and metabolic health fact check
- Diet and Nutrition Fact Check
- Eye and ENT Care Fact Check
- Fitness fact check
- Gut health fact check
- Heart health fact check
- Kidney health fact check
- Medical education fact check
- Men's health fact check
- Respiratory fact check
- Skin and hair care fact check
- Vaccine and Immunization fact check
- Women's health fact check
- AYUSH
- State News
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chandigarh
- Chattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Daman and Diu
- Delhi
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu & Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Puducherry
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttrakhand
- West Bengal
- Medical Education
- Industry
Long term insomnia associated with incident Prostate cancer
In a new study conducted by Xiaoyan Lv and and team it was shown that having a relatively easy time getting out of bed in the morning and frequently suffering sleeplessness were linked to an increased risk of prostate cancer (PCa). The findings of this study were published in The Prostate Journal.
Prostate cancer is the world's second most frequent malignancy and the sixth greatest cause of cancer-related mortality among males. As a result, more emphasis has been placed on the advantages of modifiable risk behaviors such as lifestyle. The role of sleep in the incidence of PCa is unknown. Using a UK Biobank cohort dataset, this study investigated the impact of sleep characteristics on the occurrence of PCa.
In this prospective cohort research, 213,999 people from the UK Biobank who were free of PCa at the time of recruitment were included. Multiple imputation by chained equations was used to impute missing data. The adjusted hazard ratios and 95 percent confidence intervals for PCa (6747 incident cases) across seven sleep features were calculated using Cox proportional hazards models (sleep duration, insomnia, chronotype, snoring, difficulty to get up in the morning, nap, and daytime sleepiness). In addition, we developed a new healthy sleep quality score based on sleep features to measure the influence of total night and daytime sleep status on PCa development. Unmeasured confounding was assessed using E values.
The key findings of this study were as follow:
1. A total of 6747 incident cases were recorded, including 344 deaths due to PCa.
2. Participants who had a history of sleeplessness were at a greater risk of PCa.
3. Having a relatively easy time getting out of bed in the morning was also connected with PCa.
4. Taking a sleep was usually related with a decreased incidence of PCa.
In conclusion, these findings imply that better sleep patterns may help lower the incidence of prostate cancer, while more study focusing on objective measurements is required to confirm the connections and understand the potential mechanism.
Reference: Lv, X., Li, Y., Li, R., Guan, X., Li, L., Li, J., Si, S., Ji, X., Cao, Y., & Xue, F. (2022). Relationships of sleep traits with prostate cancer risk: A prospective study of 213,999 UK Biobank participants. In The Prostate. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/pros.24345
Medical Dialogues consists of a team of passionate medical/scientific writers, led by doctors and healthcare researchers. Our team efforts to bring you updated and timely news about the important happenings of the medical and healthcare sector. Our editorial team can be reached at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.
Dr Kamal Kant Kohli-MBBS, DTCD- a chest specialist with more than 30 years of practice and a flair for writing clinical articles, Dr Kamal Kant Kohli joined Medical Dialogues as a Chief Editor of Medical News. Besides writing articles, as an editor, he proofreads and verifies all the medical content published on Medical Dialogues including those coming from journals, studies,medical conferences,guidelines etc. Email: drkohli@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751