Sleep duration and risk of ischemic stroke in postmenopausal women.
Sleep duration and risk of ischemic stroke in postmenopausal women.
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DOI:
10.1161/strokeaha.108.521773
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发表时间:
2008-12
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影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
Stefanick ML
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作者:
Chen JC;Brunner RL;Ren H;Wassertheil-Smoller S;Larson JC;Levine DW;Allison M;Naughton MJ;Stefanick ML
Many studies have shown a U-shape association between sleep duration and mortality, but epidemiological evidence linking cardiovascular diseases (CVD) with habitual sleep patterns is limited and mixed. We conducted a prospective study on 93175 older women (aged 50–79 years) in the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study cohort to examine the risk of ischemic stroke in relation to self-reported sleep duration. Cox models were used to investigate the putative associations, adjusting for multiple sociodemographic and lifestyle factors, depression, snoring, sleepiness symptoms, and other CVD-related clinical characteristics. At baseline, 8.3% of subjects had their reported sleep duration ≤5h/night and 4.6% with long sleep (≥9h/night). After an average of 7.5 years of follow-up, 1166 cases of ischemic stroke had occurred. Multivariable-adjusted relative risks (RR; 95% confidence intervals) for ischemic stroke (using a sleep time of 7h/night as the reference) were 1.14 (0.97, 1.33), 1.24 (1.04, 1.47) and 1.70 (1.32, 2.21) for women reporting 6 or less, 8, and 9 or more hours of sleep. A modestly stronger association with sleep duration ≤ 6h/night (RR=1.22; 1.03, 1.44) was noted among women without prevalent CVD at baseline. Our analyses also reveal that the adverse effect of long sleep is likely independent of the increased risk for ischemic stroke associated with frequent snoring and sleepiness (RR=1.31; 1.00, 1.72). Habitual sleep patterns are important neurobehavioral determinants of risk for ischemic stroke in postmenopausal women. The underlying neurobiology and mechanistic mediators for the putative adverse effect of long sleep (≥9h/night) need further elucidation.