{"id":7138,"date":"2018-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/27\/sleep-disruption-increases-risk-of-atrial-fibrillation\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:08:37","slug":"sleep-disruption-increases-risk-of-atrial-fibrillation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/27\/sleep-disruption-increases-risk-of-atrial-fibrillation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Disruption Increases Risk of Atrial Fibrillation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Higher risk seen across multiple cohorts, regardless of obstructive sleep apnea and other possible factors<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, June 27, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Sleep disruption consistently predicts risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) before and after adjusting for obstructive sleep apnea, according to a study published online June 25 in <i>Heart Rhythm<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew A. Christensen, M.D., from the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues assessed whether poor sleep is a risk factor for AF among participants in the<br \/>\nHealth eHeart Study (n=4,553) and the Cardiovascular Health Study (n=5,703). A subset of patients underwent polysomnography.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the 526 participants with AF in the Health eHeart Study had more frequent nighttime awakening (odds ratio, 1.47; P = 0.003). Additionally, among the Cardiovascular Health Study participants, who were followed for a median 11.6 years, frequent nighttime awakening predicted a 33 percent greater risk of AF (hazard ratio [HR], 1.33; P < 0.001). Every standard deviation percentage decrease in rapid eye movement sleep was associated with an 18 percent higher risk of developing AF (HR, 1.18; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.00 to 1.38; P = 0.047) in patients with polysomnography.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sleep quality itself may be important in the pathogenesis of AF, potentially representing a novel target for prevention,&#8221; write the authors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartrhythmjournal.com\/article\/S1547-5271(18)30474-0\/fulltext\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher risk seen across multiple cohorts, regardless of obstructive sleep apnea and other possible factors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-7138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}