Association between sleep duration and mortality risk among adults with type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

This study aimed to investigate whether the effects of sleep duration interacted with the presence of diabetes. We specifically sought to examine the relationship between sleep duration and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in people with type 2 diabetes across sex, age at diagnosis, duration of diabetes and treatment type.

Methods

The sample consisted of 273,029 adults, including 248,817 without diabetes and 24,212 with type 2 diabetes, who participated in the National Health Interview Survey from 2004 to 2013 and whose data were linked to a mortality database up to 31 December 2015. Sleep duration was measured using self-report, whereby participants were asked 'on average how long do you sleep each day (≤5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or ≥10 h/day)?' The relationship b

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7527363 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature