Sleep characteristics and cardiovascular risk in children and adolescents: an enumerative review.

ABSTRACT: Cardiovascular risk factors develop in childhood and adolescence. This enumerative review addresses whether sleep characteristics, including sleep duration, continuity, quality, and daytime sleepiness, are associated with cardiovascular risk factors in young people. Thirty-nine studies were identified, which examined the following risk factors: metabolic syndrome, glucose and insulin, lipids, blood pressure, and cardiovascular responses to psychological stressors. Due to the availability of other reviews, 16 longitudinal studies of obesity published in 2011 and later were also included in this report. Excluded from the review were studies of participants with suspected or diagnosed sleep disorders and reports from sleep deprivation experiments. Combining studies, evidence was strongest for

SUBMITTER: Matthews KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4689674 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature