Daytime sleepiness and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: results from the Nurses' Health Study II.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to determine whether daytime sleepiness is independently associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke or whether the positive association is explained by short sleep duration, disturbed sleep, and circadian disruption, conditions that are associated with cardiometabolic risk factors for vascular events.

Methods

Longitudinal analyses of data from the Nurses' Health Study II comprising 84,003 female registered nurses aged 37-54 at baseline were conducted in 2001 with follow-up until 2009. Multivariate Cox regression was used to explore the relationship between reported daytime sleepiness and the incidence of either CHD or stroke (n=500 cases).

Results

Women who reported daytime sleepiness almost every day, compared wi

SUBMITTER: Gangwisch JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4078727 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature