Sleep Duration and Quality: Impact on Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiometabolic Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Circulation. 2016 Nov 1;134(18):e367-e386. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000444. Epub 2016 Sep 19.

Abstract

Sleep is increasingly recognized as an important lifestyle contributor to health. However, this has not always been the case, and an increasing number of Americans choose to curtail sleep in favor of other social, leisure, or work-related activities. This has resulted in a decline in average sleep duration over time. Sleep duration, mostly short sleep, and sleep disorders have emerged as being related to adverse cardiometabolic risk, including obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease. Here, we review the evidence relating sleep duration and sleep disorders to cardiometabolic risk and call for health organizations to include evidence-based sleep recommendations in their guidelines for optimal health.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living*
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2* / epidemiology
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2* / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Hypertension* / epidemiology
  • Hypertension* / physiopathology
  • Life Style*
  • Obesity* / epidemiology
  • Obesity* / physiopathology
  • Sleep Wake Disorders* / epidemiology
  • Sleep Wake Disorders* / physiopathology
  • Sleep*