RT Journal Article
T1 Respiratory symptoms are more common among short sleepers independent of obesity
A1 Sánchez Ramos, José Luis
A1 Björnsdóttir, Erla
A1 Janson, Christer
A1 Lindberg, Eva
AB Introduction Sleep length has been associated withobesity and various adverse health outcomes. The possibleassociation of sleep length and respiratory symptoms hasnot been previously described. The aim of this study wasto investigate the association between sleep length andrespiratory symptoms and whether such an associationexisted independent of obesity.Methods This is a multicentre, cross-sectional,population-based study performed in 23 centres in 10different countries. Participants (n=5079, 52.3% males)were adults in the third follow-up of the EuropeanCommunity Respiratory Health Survey III. The mean±SDage was 54.2±7.1 (age range 39–67 years). Informationwas collected on general and respiratory health and sleepcharacteristics.Results The mean reported nighttime sleep duration was6.9±1.0 hours. Short sleepers (<6 hours per night) weren=387 (7.6%) and long sleepers (≥9 hours per night) weren=271 (4.3%). Short sleepers were significantly morelikely to report all respiratory symptoms (wheezing, wakingup with chest tightness, shortness of breath, coughing,phlegm and bronchitis) except asthma after adjustingfor age, gender, body mass index (BMI), centre, maritalstatus, exercise and smoking. Excluding BMI from themodel covariates did not affect the results. Short sleep wasrelated to 11 out of 16 respiratory and nasal symptomsamong subjects with BMI ≥30 and 9 out of 16 symptomsamong subjects with BMI <30. Much fewer symptomswere related to long sleep, both for subjects with BMI<30 and ≥30.Conclusions Our results show that short sleep duration isassociated with many common respiratory symptoms, andthis relationship is independent of obesity.
PB BMJ Open Respiratory Research
SN 2052-443
YR 2017
FD 2017-08
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16064
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16064
LA eng
NO José Luis Sánchez Ramos, Erla Björnsdóttir, Christer Janson, Eva Lindberg. Respiratory symptoms are more common among short sleepers independent of obesity. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2017 Aug 30;4(1). ISSN 2052-4439. DOI 10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000206
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026