{"id":10859,"date":"2021-08-30T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T09:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/?post_type=ec-news&#038;p=10859"},"modified":"2021-08-30T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T09:03:57","slug":"does-better-sleep-prevent-colon-cancer","status":"publish","type":"ec-news","link":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/does-better-sleep-prevent-colon-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Better Sleep Prevent Colon Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this study from Sweden, 58,657 persons aged 50 years and older prescribed melatonin were matched with 175,971 nonusers of melatonin. The adjusted hazard ratio for colorectal cancer (CRC) was 0.82 (<em>P<\/em>&lt;.001) for melatonin users. The effect was present for tumors throughout the colon and at both early and late stages of CRC, but it reached significance only for persons aged 60 years and older. A variety of adjustments for factors including education, colonoscopy use, and nonprescription melatonin use did not affect the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this study from Sweden, 58,657 persons aged 50 years and older prescribed melatonin were matched with 175,971 nonusers of melatonin. The adjusted hazard ratio for colorectal cancer (CRC) was 0.82 (P&lt;.001) for melatonin users. The effect was present for tumors throughout the colon and at both early and late stages of CRC, but it &#8230; <a title=\"Does Better Sleep Prevent Colon Cancer?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/does-better-sleep-prevent-colon-cancer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Does Better Sleep Prevent Colon Cancer?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1769],"tags":[2937,2058,2938],"class_list":["post-10859","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-asge-kolon","tag-better-sleep","tag-colon-2","tag-melatonin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/10859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}