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Sleep Duration and Quality as Related to Left Ventricular Structure and Function.

Jae-Hon Lee1, Sung Keun Park, Jae-Hong Ryoo

  • 1From the Department of Psychiatry (J.-H. Lee), Korea University Ansan Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Ansan, Korea; Department of Psychiatry (J.-H. Lee, Mansur, McIntyre), University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry (J.-H. Lee), Kosleep Center, Seoul, Korea; Center for Cohort Studies (Park), Total Healthcare Center, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University, School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Departments of Preventive Medicine (Ryoo, Oh, Jung), School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea; Total Healthcare Center (Kang, Jung), Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University, School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Mood Disorders and Psychopharmacology Unit (Mansur, Y. Lee, McIntyre), University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LINC) (Mansur), Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil; Department of Medicine (Alfonsi), Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Medical Science (Y. Lee), University of Tornoto, Ontario, Canada; Clinical Research Coordination Center (Shin), Office of Public Relations and Collaboration, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea; and Department of Pharmacology (McIntyre), University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Psychosomatic Medicine
|September 16, 2017
PubMed
Summary

Short sleep duration, less than 7 hours, is linked to unfavorable left ventricular (LV) structural changes, including LV hypertrophy. This may partly explain how insufficient sleep increases cardiovascular risk.

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