Irregular sleep patterns linked to subclinical atherosclerosis
Greater sleep duration irregularity was linked to increased prevalence of high coronary artery calcium burden.
Sleep irregularity, especially irregular sleep duration, is associated with measures of subclinical atherosclerosis, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Dr Kelsie Full (PhD), from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues examined cross-sectional associations of actigraphy-assessed sleep duration and sleep timing regularity with subclinical atherosclerosis among 2032 participants from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Sleep Ancillary Study who completed seven-day wrist actigraphy.
