Open AccessA Prospective Study of Sleep Duration and Pneumonia Risk in Women
Author(s) -
Sanjay R. Patel,
Atul Malhotra,
Xiang Gao,
Frank B. Hu,
Mark I. Neuman,
Wafaie Fawzi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.5665/sleep.1594
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonia , relative risk , prospective cohort study , cohort study , confounding , proportional hazards model , cohort , risk factor , pediatrics , confidence interval
Experimental data suggest sleep deprivation may impair host immunity. We sought to assess the effect of poor sleep on pneumonia risk.
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