The association of sleep duration and quality with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Women's Health Initiative

While many studies have shown a U-shaped association of sleep duration with mortality, this association is difficult to interpret owing to possible reverse causation, residual confounding, and measurement issues. We used data from the Women ’s Health Initiative to examine the associations of sleep duration, insomnia, and use of sleep aids with death from cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, “other” causes, and all causes combined.

Source: Sleep Medicine - June 1, 2018 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Geoffrey C. Kabat, Xiaonan Xue, Victor Kamensky, Oleg Zaslavsky, Katie L. Stone, Karen C. Johnson, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Juhuo Luo, Lauren Hale, Lihong Qi, Jane A. Cauley, Robert L. Brunner, JoAnn E. Manson, Thomas E. Rohan Tags: Original Article Source Type: research