Sleep Duration Is Associated With Subclinical Carotid Plaque Burden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sleep duration is associated with stroke risk and is 1 of 8 essential components of cardiovascular health according to the American Heart Association. As stroke disproportionately burdens Black and Hispanic populations in the United States, we hypothesized that long and short sleep duration would be associated with greater subclinical carotid atherosclerosis, a precursor of stroke, in the racially and ethnically diverse NOMAS (Northern Manhattan Study).

Methods

NOMAS is a study of community-dwelling adults. Self-reported nightly sleep duration and daytime sleepiness were collected between 2006 and 2011. Carotid plaque presence, total plaque area, and intima-media thickness were measured by ultrasound between 1999 and 2008. Linear and logistic regression models exa

SUBMITTER: Agudelo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10527503 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature