Association of Sleep Patterns and Lifestyles With Incident Hypertension: Evidence From a Large Population-Based Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adherence to a healthy lifestyle (no smoking, consuming a healthy diet, engaging in physical activity, and maintaining a healthy weight) is recommended in current guidelines for hypertension prevention. However, evidence regarding the association between sleep behaviors, independently and jointly with traditional lifestyle factors, and the risk of hypertension is limited.

Methods

This prospective study included 165,493 participants who are free of hypertension at baseline from the UK Biobank. Sleep behaviors, including chronotype, sleep duration, insomnia, snoring, and daytime sleepiness were used to construct a healthy sleep score. We also derived a healthy lifestyle score based on smoking status, diet quality, physical activity, and body mass index (BMI). Cox pr

SUBMITTER: Lv Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9010545 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature