Emotional Vulnerability to Short Sleep Predicts Increases in Chronic Health Conditions Across 8 Years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sleep is a robust determinant of next-day emotions, but people vary in the extent that their emotions fluctuate on days following short sleep duration. These individual differences in day-to-day sleep and emotion dynamics may have long-term health implications.

Purpose

To evaluate emotional vulnerability to short sleep (within-person associations between sleep duration and next-day emotions) as a risk factor for future chronic conditions.

Methods

Adults aged 33-84 (N = 1,426; 57% female) in the Midlife in the United States Study reported sleep duration and emotions by telephone for eight consecutive days. Chronic conditions were assessed via checklist at baseline and at a median follow-up of eight years (range: 5-10 years). Short sleep was examined in three

SUBMITTER: Sin NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8824788 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature