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  • Nutritional Science
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Genetics

Background:

  • Sleep is crucial for health, but COVID-19 negatively impacted sleep quality.
  • The precise causal links between micronutrient status and sleep disorders remain largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the genetic causal relationships between various micronutrients and specific sleep disorders.
  • To identify potential micronutrient-based interventions for sleep disturbances.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as instrumental variables.
  • Utilized multiple statistical methods including MR-Egger, inverse variance weighted, and Cochran's Q test for robust analysis.

Main Results:

  • Identified eight micronutrients with genetically predicted associations with sleep disorders.
  • Specific findings include liver iron (L-iron) and iron linked to oversleeping, spleen iron (S-iron) to insomnia and undersleeping, and vitamin D (VD) to oversleeping.

Conclusions:

  • Established potential causal links between several micronutrients (e.g., iron, vitamin D, vitamin B12) and sleep disorder subtypes.
  • Results offer a foundation for developing targeted micronutrient strategies to manage and alleviate sleep disorder symptoms.