Trial reportSleep2015
Behaviorally Assessed Sleep and Susceptibility to the Common Cold.
Trial report in Sleep, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04420260 (Scheme of Primary Prevention of Infection by COVID-19, in Workers), which is not on this map. Cited by 169 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Scheme of Primary Prevention of Infection by COVID-19, in Workers: Phase II Controlled Clinical Trial, to be Carried Out in Medellín-Antioquia
Who cites it
169 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 390 citations in OpenAlex.
- Night-shift work and susceptibility to infectious diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Pooled it
- Sleep disturbance increases the risk of severity and acquisition of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of medical research · 2023Pooled it
- Lymphocyte and dendritic cell response to a period of intensified training in young healthy humans and rodents: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Pooled it
- The relationship between duration and quality of sleep and upper respiratory tract infections: a systematic review.Family practice · 2021Pooled it
- Sleep Duration and Sleep Quality in Caregivers of Patients With Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of a mild inflammatory challenge on cytokines and sickness behavior: A randomized controlled trial using the influenza vaccine.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2025Trial
- ColdZyme® reduces viral load and upper respiratory tract infection duration and protects airway epithelia from infection with human rhinoviruses.The Journal of physiology · 2025Trial
- Effect of exercise on sleep and cardiopulmonary parameters in patients with pulmonary artery hypertension.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2021Trial
- The sleep-wake cycle: molecular mechanisms, disorders, and therapeutic targets in the context of energy metabolism.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026Review
- Uncovering Sleep Behaviour in Women's Football: What Evidence Do We Have?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Review
- Asymptomatic COVID-19 among university students during the low-risk transmission period.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Temporal dynamics and associated factors of sleep quality in Chinese boarding high school students: a repeated cross-sectional study across four waves (2019-2024).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Hemoglobin-to-red cell distribution width ratio and sleep duration as predictors of pneumonia: Evidence from NHANES 2011-2018.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Article
- Multidimensional Healthy Sleep Characteristics and Pneumonia Risk: A Large-scale, Population-based Prospective Cohort Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Obstructive sleep apnea, positive airway pressure therapy, and COVID-19 outcomes.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2026Article
- The impact of sleep duration, sleep debt and insomnia symptoms on infection risk: a longitudinal cohort study with 1-year follow-up.Family practice · 2026Article
- Health outcomes after national acute sleep deprivation events among the American public.JCI insight · 2026Article
- Reference Intervals for Lymphocyte Subpopulations in Healthy Chinese Han Adults: A Single-Center Study.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2026Article
- Physical and mental load of tactical athletes during Arctic military training.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- A lifestyle-driven inflammatory load index and its circulating metabolomic signature identify susceptibility to hospital-recorded acute respiratory infections: a population-based cohort study of 295,679 adults.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
109 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
STUDY
objectivesShort sleep duration and poor sleep continuity have been implicated in the susceptibility to infectious illness. However, prior research has relied on subjective measures of sleep, which are subject to recall bias. The aim of this study was to determine whether sleep, measured behaviorally using wrist actigraphy, predicted cold incidence following experimental viral exposure. DESIGN, MEASUREMENTS, AND
resultsA total of 164 healthy men and women (age range, 18 to 55 y) volunteered for this study. Wrist actigraphy and sleep diaries assessed sleep duration and sleep continuity over 7 consecutive days. Participants were then quarantined and administered nasal drops containing the rhinovirus, and monitored over 5 days for the development of a clinical cold (defined by infection in the presence of objective signs of illness). Logistic regression analysis revealed that actigraphy- assessed shorter sleep duration was associated with an increased likelihood of development of a clinical cold. Specifically, those sleeping < 5 h (odds ratio [OR] = 4.50, 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.08-18.69) or sleeping between 5 to 6 h (OR = 4.24, 95% CI, 1.08-16.71) were at greater risk of developing the cold compared to those sleeping > 7 h per night; those sleeping 6.01 to 7 h were at no greater risk (OR = 1.66; 95% CI 0.40-6.95). This association was independent of prechallenge antibody levels, demographics, season of the year, body mass index, psychological variables, and health practices. Sleep fragmentation was unrelated to cold susceptibility. Other sleep variables obtained using diary and actigraphy were not strong predictors of cold susceptibility.
conclusionsShorter sleep duration, measured behaviorally using actigraphy prior to viral exposure, was associated with increased susceptibility to the common cold.
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