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Gender-specific associations of short sleep duration with prevalent and incident hypertension : the Whitehall II Study
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Cappuccio, Francesco, Stranges, Saverio, Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin, Miller, Michelle A., Taggart, Frances M., Kumari, Meena, Ferrie, Jane E., Shipley, Martin J., Brunner, Eric and Marmot, Michael G. (2007) Gender-specific associations of short sleep duration with prevalent and incident hypertension : the Whitehall II Study. Hypertension, 50 (4). pp. 693-700. doi:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.095471 ISSN 0194-911X.
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Abstract
Sleep deprivation (5 hour per night) was associated with a higher risk of hypertension in middle-aged American adults but not among older individuals. However, the outcome was based on self-reported diagnosis of incident hypertension, and no gender-specific analyses were included. We examined cross-sectional and prospective associations of sleep duration with prevalent and incident hypertension in a cohort of 10 308 British civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline (phase 1: 1985-1988). Data were gathered from phase 5 (1997-1999) and phase 7 (2003-2004). Sleep duration and other covariates were assessed at phase 5. At both examinations, hypertension was defined as blood pressure 140/90 mm Hg or regular use of antihypertensive medications. In cross-sectional analyses at phase 5 (n5766), short duration of sleep (5 hour per night) was associated with higher risk of hypertension compared with the group sleeping 7 hours, among women (odds ratio: 2.01; 95% CI: 1.13 to 3.58), independent of confounders, with an inverse linear trend across decreasing hours of sleep (P0.003). No association was detected in men. In prospective analyses (mean follow-up: 5 years), the cumulative incidence of hypertension was 20.0% (n740) among 3691 normotensive individuals at phase 5. In women, short duration of sleep was associated with a higher risk of hypertension in a reduced model (age and employment) (6 hours per night: odds ratio: 1.56 [95% CI: 1.07 to 2.27]; 5 hour per night: odds ratio: 1.94 [95% CI: 1.08 to 3.50] versus 7 hours). The associations were attenuated after accounting for cardiovascular risk factors and psychiatric comorbidities (odds ratio: 1.42 [95% CI: 0.94 to 2.16]; odds ratio: 1.31 [95% CI: 0.65 to 2.63], respectively). Sleep deprivation may produce detrimental cardiovascular effects among women. (Hypertension. 2007;50:694-701.) Key Words: sleep duration blood pressure hypertension gender differences confounders comorbidities
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) > Warwick Evidence Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sleep deprivation, Blood pressure, Hypertension, Sex differences -- Health aspects | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Hypertension | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | American Heart Association | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0194-911X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 4 September 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 693-700 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.095471 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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