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ABSTRACT: Study objectives
The current study sought to determine whether sleep duration and change in sleep duration are associated with all-cause mortality in a community sample of middle-aged and older adults while accounting for several confounding factors including prevalent sleep-disordered breathing (SDB).Methods
Habitual sleep duration was assessed using self-report (< 7, 7-8, ? 9 h/night) at the baseline and at the follow-up visits of the Sleep Heart Health Study. Techniques of survival analysis were used to relate habitual sleep duration and change in sleep duration to all-cause mortality after adjusting for covariates such as age, sex, race, body mass index, smoking history, prevalent hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, antidepressant medication use, and SDB severity.Results
Compared to a sleep duration of 7-8 h/night, habitually long sleep duration (? 9 h/night), but not short sleep duration (< 7 h/night), was associated with all-cause mortality with an adjusted hazards ratio of 1.25 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.05, 1.47). Participants who progressed from short or normal sleep duration to long sleep duration had increased risk for all-cause mortality with adjusted hazard ratios of 1.75 (95% CI: 1.08, 2.78) and 1.63 (95% CI: 1.26, 2.13), respectively. Finally, a change from long to short sleep duration was also associated with all-cause mortality.Conclusion
Long sleep duration or a shift from long to short sleep duration are independently associated with all-cause mortality.
SUBMITTER: Aurora RN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5070744 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aurora R Nisha RN Kim Ji Soo JS Crainiceanu Ciprian C O'Hearn Daniel D Punjabi Naresh M NM
Sleep 20161101 11
<h4>Study objectives</h4>The current study sought to determine whether sleep duration and change in sleep duration are associated with all-cause mortality in a community sample of middle-aged and older adults while accounting for several confounding factors including prevalent sleep-disordered breathing (SDB).<h4>Methods</h4>Habitual sleep duration was assessed using self-report (< 7, 7-8, ≥ 9 h/night) at the baseline and at the follow-up visits of the Sleep Heart Health Study. Techniques of sur ...[more]