Onset of Impaired Sleep and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Longitudinal Study

Conclusions:Results suggest that onset of sleep disturbances rather than short or long sleep mark an increase in physiological risk factors, which may partly explain the higher risk of CVD observed among impaired sleepers.Commentary:A commentary on this paper appears in this issue on page 1629.Citation:Clark AJ, Salo P, Lange T, Jennum P, Virtanen M, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Rod NH, Vahtera J. Onset of impaired sleep and cardiovascular disease risk factors: a longitudinal study.SLEEP 2016;39(9):1709–1718.
Source: Sleep - Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: research