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Short sleep duration, snoring linked to risk for incident heart failure

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In a prospective study of more than 90,000 participants, short sleep duration and snoring were associated with elevated risk for incident HF.

The researchers conducted a prospective study of 93,613 Chinese adults from the Kailuan cohort who were free from preexisting CVD to investigate whether self-reported short sleep duration and snoring, the latter of which served as a surrogate for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), were associated with incident HF during a median follow-up of 8.8 years. Read the full story in Healio.

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Sleeping 5 Hours or Less Raises Risk of Multiple Chronic Diseases

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— Risk emerged in midlife and persisted at older ages

People who reported sleeping 5 hours or less a night had a higher risk of multiple chronic diseases in the future, a longitudinal study in England showed.

Healthy 50-year-olds who slept 5 or fewer hours a night had a 30% greater risk of future multimorbidity over 25 years compared with those who slept 7 hours (HR 1.30, 95% CI 1.12-1.50, P<0.001), according to Séverine Sabia, PhD, of Université de Paris and University College London, and co-authors. Read more in MedPage Today.

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