Reductions in disease-free life particularly pronounced for those with sleep-related breathing disorders<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
By Lori Solomon HealthDay Reporter<\/b><\/p>\n
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WEDNESDAY, March 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Poor sleep, especially for individuals with sleep-related breathing disorders, is negatively associated with a cardiovascular disease (CVD)-free life, according to a study published online March 2 in BMC Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n Bo\u00e2\u0080\u0091Huei Huang, from the University of Sydney, and colleagues estimated the differences in CVD-free life expectancy between people with different sleep profiles. Five sleep characteristics were self-reported and five clinical sleep disorder events were defined and grouped as “healthy sleep,” “intermediate sleep,” and “poor sleep.” The analysis included 308,683 middle-aged adults identified from the U.K. Biobank who provided self-reports of sleep data, with primary care linkage data for 140,181 for clinical confirmation of sleep events.<\/p>\n The researchers observed a gradual loss in CVD-free life expectancy toward poor sleep versus healthy sleepers, with poor sleeper women losing 1.80 and men losing 2.31 CVD-free years. For intermediate sleepers, loss of CVD-free years was 0.48 for women and 0.55 for men. Men with clinical insomnia or sleep-related breathing disorders lost CVD-free life of 3.84 or 6.73 years, respectively. In women, sleep-related breathing disorders and other sleep disorders were associated with 7.32 and 1.43 years lost, respectively.<\/p>\n “Our research shows that, over time, regular poor sleep can lead to significantly compromised cardiovascular health in middle and old age,” a coauthor said in a statement. “Sleep apnea is well known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions, but these findings are a wake-up call that poor sleep in general can pose significant risk to heart health.”<\/p>\n