Sleep Duration and Quality in Relation to Autonomic Nervous System Measures: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Conclusions:Short sleep duration, low sleep efficiency, and insomnia combined with short sleep duration were associated with markers of autonomic tone that indicate lower levels of cardiac parasympathetic (vagal) tone and/or higher levels of sympathetic tone.Citation:Castro-Diehl C, Roux AV, Redline S, Seeman T, McKinley P, Sloan R, Shea S. Sleep duration and quality in relation to autonomic nervous system measures: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).SLEEP 2016;39(11):1927–1940.
Source: Sleep - Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: research