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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 Apr 3;33(4):624–627. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-23-0983

Table 2.

Association between sleep characteristics and risk of PDACa

Age-adjusted Multivariate adjustedb Excluding Shift Workersc Excluding those with Diabetesd Censored at 5 years follow-upb Excluding those with <5 years follow-upb
Sleep Characteristics Total Person-Years Follow-up PDAC Cases (n=1,079) HR HR HR HR HR HR
(95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI)
Sleep Duration
Sleep <7 hours 116,835 1,225,177 272 1.08 1.03 1.02 1.02 0.96 1.07
(0.94–1.24) (0.90–1.19) (0.88–1.18) (0.87–1.18) (0.75–1.23) (0.90–1.27)
Sleep 7-<9 hours 319,223 3,362,315 698 Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Sleep ≥9 hours 35,598 366,741 102 1.11 1.00 1.03 1.10 1.01 0.99
(0.90–1.37) (0.81–1.24) (0.83–1.28) (0.88–1.37) (0.70–1.45) (0.77–1.29)
Chronotype
Definitely “morning” 113,904 1,191,404 256 Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
More “morning” than “evening” 148,890 1,563,828 336 1.05 1.08 1.09 1.11 1.23 1.01
(0.90–1.23) (0.92–1.26) (0.93–1.29) (0.94–1.31) (0.93–1.63) (0.83–1.23)
More “evening” than “morning” 119,512 1,255,338 276 1.14 1.08 1.08 1.12 1.22 1.02
(0.96–1.35) (0.91–1.28) (0.90–1.29) (0.93–1.34) (0.90–1.64) (0.83–1.25)
Definitely “evening” 37,996 397,529 81 1.17 0.99 0.99 1.03 1.05 0.97
(0.91–1.51) (0.77–1.29) (0.75–1.30) (0.78–1.36) (0.67–1.65) (0.71–1.32)
P-trend 0.08 0.70 0.75 0.45 0.47 0.97
Employment/Shift Work
Employed-Mostly Daytime Work 227,979 2,439,984 353 Ref Ref -- Ref Ref Ref
Employed-Job Involves Shift Work 23,739 253,805 45 1.28 1.21 -- 1.14 0.98 1.32
(0.94–1.75) (0.88–1.64) (0.82–1.59) (0.54–1.78) (0.91–1.90)
Employed-Job Involves Night Shift Work 24,644 264,271 27 0.85 0.74 -- 0.75 0.62 0.79
(0.57–1.26) (0.50–1.09) (0.50–1.14) (0.28–1.34) (0.50–1.25)
Retired 153,498 1,559,976 563 0.96 0.97 -- 0.94 0.78 1.07
(0.82–1.12) (0.82–1.14) (0.80–1.12) (0.60–1.03) (0.88–1.31)
Unemployed 42,949 448,050 85 1.30 1.09 -- 1.04 1.10 1.09
(1.03–1.65) (0.86–1.39) (0.80–1.36) (0.73–1.66) (0.81–1.47)
Insomnia/Sleeplessness
Never/Rarely 115,604 1,218,819 254 Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Sometimes 226,289 2,380,323 509 0.92 0.95 0.95 0.91 1.01 0.93
(0.79–1.07) (0.82–1.11) (0.81–1.11) (0.78–1.07) (0.78–1.32) (0.77–1.11)
Usually 132,289 1,381,204 316 0.93 0.92 0.92 0.88 0.88 0.94
(0.79–1.10) (0.78–1.09) (0.77–1.10) (0.74–1.05) (0.65–1.19) (0.77–1.16)
P-trend 0.44 0.35 0.37 0.17 0.37 0.62
Snoring
No 275,726 2,902,522 576 Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Yes 164,952 1,729,016 404 1.15 1.01 0.99 1.00 0.96 1.03
(1.02–1.31) (0.89–1.15) (0.86–1.13) (0.88–1.15) (0.76–1.22) (0.88–1.21)
Daytime Sleeping
Never/Rarely 359,301 3,789,459 790 Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Sometimes 99,528 1,033,011 250 0.96 0.93 0.92 0.91 0.94 0.92
(0.84–1.11) (0.80–1.07) (0.79–1.06) (0.78–1.06) (0.73–1.21) (0.78–1.10)
Often/All the time 13,222 135,993 31 0.95 0.82 0.84 0.82 1.06 0.71
(0.66–1.36) (0.57–1.18) (0.58–1.22) (0.54–1.24) (0.60–1.86) (0.44–1.13)
P-trend 0.58 0.16 0.17 0.14 0.80 0.13
a

Analyses used multiple imputation; sleep characteristics presented as complete case. Missing level details (PDAC cases/Participants missing sleep exposure data): Sleep Duration (7/3,630); Chronotype (130/54,984); Employment/Shift Work (6/2,477); Insomnia/Sleeplessness (0/1,104); Snoring (99/34,608); Daytime Sleeping (8/3,235).

b

Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for: Age (continuous; years), Sex (binary); BMI (categorical; 5-level), Alcohol Intake (categorical; 6-level), Smoking Status, Duration, and Frequency (categorical; 21-level), Race (binary), Diabetes Status (binary), and Employment/Shift Work (categorical; 5-level) except in models of Employment/Shift Work.

c

Excluding shift workers; cox proportional hazards models adjusted for covariates in b.

d

Excluding participants with diabetes; cox proportional hazards models adjusted for covariates in b, except Diabetes Status (binary).