# name
Respiratory symptoms are more common among short sleepers
                independent of obesity

# metadata.dc.description.abstract[].value
INTRODUCTION: Sleep length has been associated with obesity and
                various adverse health outcomes. The possible association of
                sleep length and respiratory symptoms has not been previously
                described. The aim of this study was to investigate the
                association between sleep length and respiratory symptoms and
                whether such an association existed independent of obesity.
                METHODS: This is a multicentre, cross-sectional,
                population-based study performed in 23 centres in 10 different
                countries. Participants (n=5079, 52.3% males) were adults in the
                third follow-up of the European Community Respiratory Health
                Survey III. The mean+/-SD age was 54.2+/-7.1 (age range 39-67
                years). Information was collected on general and respiratory
                health and sleep characteristics. RESULTS: The mean reported
                nighttime sleep duration was 6.9+/-1.0 hours. Short sleepers
                (<6 hours per night) were n=387 (7.6%) and long sleepers
                (>/=9 hours per night) were n=271 (4.3%). Short sleepers were
                significantly more likely to report all respiratory symptoms
                (wheezing, waking up with chest tightness, shortness of breath,
                coughing, phlegm and bronchitis) except asthma after adjusting
                for age, gender, body mass index (BMI), centre, marital status,
                exercise and smoking. Excluding BMI from the model covariates
                did not affect the results. Short sleep was related to 11 out of
                16 respiratory and nasal symptoms among subjects with BMI
                >/=30 and 9 out of 16 symptoms among subjects with BMI
                <30. Much fewer symptoms were related to long sleep, both for
                subjects with BMI <30 and >/=30. CONCLUSIONS: Our results
                show that short sleep duration is associated with many common
                respiratory symptoms, and this relationship is independent of
                obesity.

# metadata.dc.relation.isformatof[].value
Reproducció del document publicat a:
                http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000206

# metadata.dc.relation.ispartof[].value
BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2017, vol. 4, num. 1, p. e000206

# metadata.dc.source[].value
Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

# metadata.dc.title[].value
Respiratory symptoms are more common among short sleepers
                independent of obesity