High blood glucose levels are associated with higher risk of colon cancer in men: a cohort study.

BMC Cancer · 2017 · PMC5727949 · PMID 29233100

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In men, the association between blood glucose and colon cancer had borderline significance (HR: 3.47 for the highest compared with the lowest quartile; 95% CI: 0.88, 13.74, p for trend = 0.099).

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The associations between HOMA2-IR and CRC did not reach statistical significance in men (HR: 1.62 for the highest compared with the lowest quartile; 95% CI: 0.81, 3.25; p for trend = 0.132), or in women (HR: 0.77 for the highest compared with the lowest quartile; 95% CI: 0.37, 1.59; p for trend = 0.779) (Table 4 ).

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