Poor sleep and delayed time to pregnancy: a wake-up call for physicians and researchers?

Other disciplines are increasingly recognizing poor sleep health as a risk factor for a host of adverse health outcomes, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression, and all-cause mortality (1). Even within the context of reproductive epidemiology, disrupted sleep patterns have been linked to a higher risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as gestational diabetes (2), stillbirth, preterm birth, and low birth weight (3). Therefore, it is not entirely surprising that new evidence is emerging that sleep disturbances may be associated with impaired fertility in women.
Source: Fertility and Sterility - Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Tags: Reflections Source Type: research