An Update on Sleep Duration, Obesity, and Mortality Risk in Women

Overview

Journal Sleep Med Clin

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2024 Mar 19

PMID 38501514

Authors

Kelsie M Full

Dayna A Johnson

Christopher N Kaufmann

Atul Malhotra

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Abstract

Sleep health is an essential component to overall health. Because of numerous societal, economic, and biological factors, obtaining adequate sleep poses a unique challenge to aging women. Yet, women have been traditionally understudied in sleep research. An increasing body of research supports abnormal sleep duration as a risk factor for obesity, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. This review focuses specifically on 3 areas of the discussion of insufficient sleep in women: (1) the mysterious poor health of long sleepers, (2) the potential underlying mechanisms linking abnormal sleep duration and cardiometabolic health, and (3) the need to investigate multiple levels of social determinants driving sleep disparities.

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