The Association Between Insomnia and Increased Future Cardiovascular Events: A Nationwide Population-Based Study

Chien-Yi Hsu1, Yung-Tai Chen, Mu-Hong Chen

  • 1From the Division of Cardiology, Departments of Medicine (Hsu, C.-C. Huang, P.-H. Huang, J.-W. Chen, Lin, Leu, Chan), Medical Research and Education (C.-C. Huang, J.-W. Chen, Lin), Family Medicine (T.-J. Chen), and Psychiatry (M.-H. Chen), and Healthcare and Management Center (Leu, Chan), Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Cardiovascular Research Center (Hsu, Y.-T. Chen, C.-C. Huang, Chiang, P.-H. Huang, J.-W. Chen, Lin, Leu, Chan) and Institutes of Pharmacology (C.-C. Huang, J.-W. Chen), Clinical Medicine (Hsu, Chiang, P.-H. Huang, Lin, Leu), and Hospital and Health Care Administration, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan (T.-J. Chen); Department of Medicine (Hsu), Taipei Veterans General Hospital Yuli Branch, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medicine (Y.-T. Chen), Taipei City Hospital, Heping Fuyou Branch, Taipei, Taiwan; Taipei Medical University (Lin), Taipei, Taiwan.

Psychosomatic Medicine
|September 11, 2015
PubMed
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