Associations between sleep difficulties and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in veterans and active duty military personnel of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
Associations between sleep difficulties and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in veterans and active duty military personnel of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
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伊拉克和阿富汗冲突的退伍军人和现役军人睡眠困难与心血管疾病危险因素之间的关联。
DOI：
10.1007/s10865-015-9627-4
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Beckham,JeanC
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Ulmer,ChristiS;Bosworth,HaydenB;Germain,Anne;Lindquist,Jennifer;Olsen,Maren;Brancu,Mira;VAMid-AtlanticMentalIllnessResearchEducationandClinicalCenterRegistryWorkgroup;Beckham,JeanC
最近的证据表明，睡眠障碍可能在心血管疾病（CVD）的发展中发挥重要作用。尽管在最近的军事冲突中，服务人员普遍存在睡眠问题，但很少有研究探讨睡眠与CVD风险因素之间的关系。症状检查表项目有关的困扰“入睡困难”和“不安/不安的睡眠”被用来作为代理睡眠发作和维护困难，以检查这些协会在最近的冲突中的美国军人。有睡眠发作和维持困难的退伍军人有更大的可能性是一个当前的吸烟者，并有精神症状和诊断。自我报告的高血压诊断和收缩压升高的几率增加也发现在这个样本的某些子集。研究结果强调，需要更多地认识到睡眠困难是已知这种情况风险增加的人群中的心血管疾病风险因素。
Recent evidence suggests that sleep disturbance may play an important role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Despite the prevalence of sleep complaints among service members of recent military conflicts, few studies have examined associations between sleep and risk factors for CVD in this population. Symptom checklist items regarding distress about “trouble falling asleep” and “restless/disturbed sleep” were used as proxies for sleep onset and maintenance difficulties to examine these associations in US military service members of recent conflicts. Veterans having both sleep onset and maintenance difficulties had greater odds of being a current smoker and having psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses. Increased odds of a self-reported hypertension diagnosis and elevated systolic blood pressure were also found in certain subsets of this sample. Findings highlight the need for greater recognition of sleep difficulties as a CVD risk factor in a population known to be at increased risk for this condition.