Comments on: "Sleep disturbances increase the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis ”

We read an article written by Shi et al. (1) with interest. The authors performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of 18 longitudinal studies to determine whether sleep disturbances (including insomnia, sleep disordered breathing, and other sleep problems) increase the risk of dementia. The meta-analysis was done by computing overall relative risk (RR) of incident dementia. The main findings from this study showed that sleep disturbances might increase risk of all-cause dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and vascular dementia.
Source: Sleep Medicine Reviews - Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Tags: Letter to the editor Source Type: research