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From sleep duration to mortality: implications of meta‐analysis and future directions
Author(s) -
Grandner Michael A.,
Patel Nirav P.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of sleep research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.297
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2869
pISSN - 0962-1105
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2009.00753.x
Subject(s) - relative risk , meta analysis , sleep (system call) , medicine , obesity , confidence interval , demography , epidemiology , disease , gerontology , computer science , operating system , sociology
Although, to a large extent, the functions of sleep remain elusive, the amount of sleep that humans attain represents a health issue that has received growing attention. Over the past 60 years, accruing evidence demonstrates that self-reported short or long sleep duration (usually 8 h) is related to mortality risk. Intense interest in the sleep–mortality relationship has paralleled mounting evidence, laboratory-based and epidemiological, implicating sleep duration in a variety of health outcomes including obesity, cardiovascular disease and metabolic dysregulation. The act of sleeping, therefore, is a critical health behavior.