The association between recreational screen time and cancer risk: findings from the UK Biobank, a large prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence is suggestive of sedentary behaviour being associated with an increased risk of endometrial cancer, but the evidence base is too limited to draw any conclusions for other cancers. The aim of the study was to investigate the association between recreational screen time and site-specific cancer risk.

Methods

We analysed data from the prospective UK Biobank cohort study. Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for associations between daily recreational screen time (including television (TV) viewing time, computer use time and total screen time) and site-specific cancer risk. Partition models and isotemporal substitution models investigated the impact of substituting recreational screen tim

SUBMITTER: Hunter RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7398067 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature