Open Access<p>The Association Between Sleep Duration, Asthma-Related Episodes/Attacks and Emergency Department Visits</p>
Author(s) -
Zhigang Hu,
Yufeng Tian,
Fanjun Zeng,
Xubin Song
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nature and science of sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.715
H-Index - 34
ISSN - 1179-1608
DOI - 10.2147/nss.s243882
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , emergency department , confounding , poisson regression , pediatrics , psychiatry , population , environmental health
Inadequate sleep duration potentially increases the risk of allergic asthma; yet, the effect of different sleep duration on asthma-related episodes/attacks and emergency department (ED) visits has remained unclear. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association between sleep duration, asthma-related episodes/attacks and ED visits.