Insomnia symptoms and incident heart failure: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Heart failure (HF) is an ongoing epidemic and a serious clinical and public health issue. Currently, little is known about prospective associations between insomnia symptoms and HF incidence. We investigated the longitudinal associations between time-varying insomnia symptoms (difficulty initiating sleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, early-morning awakening, non-restorative sleep) and incident HF.

Methods and results

Data were obtained from the Health and Retirement Study in the US for a population-representative sample of 12,761 middle-aged and older adults (age ≥ 50 years; mean [SD] age, 66.7 [9.4] years; 57.7% females) who were free from HF at baseline in 2002. Respondents were followed for 16 years for incident HF. We employed marginal structural discrete-time surv

SUBMITTER: Mahmood A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8728724 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature