Causal association between subtypes of excessive daytime sleepiness and risk of cardiovascular diseases

Abstract: Background
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), experienced in 10% to 20% of the population, has been associated with cardiovascular disease and death. However, the condition is heterogeneous and is prevalent in individuals having short and long sleep duration. We sought to clarify the relationship between sleep duration subtypes of EDS with cardiovascular outcomes, accounting for these subtypes.

Methods and Results
We defined 3 sleep duration subtypes of excessive daytime sleepiness: normal (6–9 hours), short (<6 hours), and long (>9 hours), and compared these with a nonsleepy, normal‐sleep‐duration reference group. We analyzed their associations with incident myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke using medical records of 355 901 UK Biobank participants and performed 2‐sample Mendelian randomization for each outcome. Compared with healthy sleep, long‐sleep EDS was associated with an 83% increased rate of MI (hazard ratio, 1.83 [95% CI, 1.21–2.77]) during 8.2‐year median follow‐up, adjusting for multiple health and sociodemographic factors. Mendelian randomization analysis provided supporting evidence of a causal role for a genetic long‐sleep EDS subtype in MI (inverse‐variance weighted β=1.995, P=0.001). In contrast, we did not find evidence that other subtypes of EDS were associated with incident MI or any associations with stroke (P>0.05).

Conclusions
Our study suggests the previous evidence linking EDS with increased cardiovascular disease risk may be primarily driven by the effect of its long‐sleep subtype on higher risk of MI. Underlying mechanisms remain to be investigated but may involve sleep irregularity and circadian disruption, suggesting a need for novel interventions in this population

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Journal of the American Heart Association. - 12, 24 (2023) , e030568, ISSN: 2047-9980

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Medizin, Gesundheit

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Freiburg
• (wer): Universität
• (wann): 2023
• Urheber: Goodman, Matthew O ; Dashti, Hassan S. ; Lane, Jacqueline M. ; Windred, Daniel P. ; Burns, Angus ; Jones, Samuel E. ; Sofer, Tamar ; Purcell, Shaun ; Zhu, Xiaofeng ; Ollila, Hanna M. ; Kyle, Simon D. ; Spiegelhalder, Kai ; Peker, Yuksel ; Huang, Tianyi ; Cain, Sean W. ; Phillips, Andrew J. K. ; Saxena, Richa ; Rutter, Martin K. ; Redline, Susan ; Wang, Heming

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1161/jaha.122.030568
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2422972
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 15.08.2025, 07:36 MESZ