SynthesisAnnals of the American Thoracic Society2015
Sleep Duration and Metabolic Syndrome. An Updated Dose-Risk Metaanalysis.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 147 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sleep Duration and the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Pooled it
- The Association Between Sleep and Metabolic Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Pooled it
- Association of sleep duration with chronic kidney disease and proteinuria in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.International urology and nephrology · 2020Pooled it
- A Week of Sleep Restriction Does Not Affect Nighttime Glucose Concentration in Healthy Adult Males When Slow-Wave Sleep Is Maintained.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Trial
- Associations of Physical Behaviours and Behavioural Reallocations with Markers of Metabolic Health: A Compositional Data Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Trial
- Qigong/tai chi for sleep and fatigue in prostate cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy: a randomized controlled trial.Psycho-oncology · 2017Trial
- Association of Sleep Duration, Metabolic Markers, and Risk of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in China and the UK.Global heart · 2026Article
- The association between sleep duration, insomnia and sleep patterns with metabolic syndrome: an integrative review.Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare · 2026Review
- The impact of sleep duration on the incidence of new-onset chronic kidney disease in community-dwelling adults: a nationwide cohort study.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Associations between self-reported and actigraphy measured sleep duration with metabolic syndrome: evidence from NHANES 2011-2014.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Medical Students on Their Internal Medicine Clerkship Experience Short Sleep Duration.ATS scholar · 2025Article
- Diet Therapy and Probiotics to Improve Sleep Apnea Risk and Quality of Life in Older Adults (>60 Years) with Metabolic Syndrome: A Study from Romania.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sleep variability and time to achieving pregnancy: findings from a pilot cohort study of women desiring pregnancy.Fertility and sterility · 2025Article
- Causal relationship of sleep duration on risks for metabolic syndrome: a Mendelian randomization study.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2025Article
- Associations of Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Insomnia with Incident Metabolic Syndrome - The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Article
- The mediating effect of handgrip strength on the association between sleep duration and basal metabolic rate in middle-aged and older adults: evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Impact of sleep duration and dietary patterns on risk of metabolic syndrome in middle-aged and elderly adults: a cross-sectional study from a survey in Anhui, Eastern China.Lipids in health and disease · 2024Article
- Metabolic syndrome clustering patterns and the association with cardiovascular disease among post-menopausal Korean women.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Acute sleep deprivation-induced hepatotoxicity and dyslipidemia in middle-aged female rats and its amelioration by butanol extract of Tinospora cordifolia.Laboratory animal research · 2024Article
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Abstract
rationaleSeveral studies have reported that both short and long sleep durations are associated with the metabolic syndrome, but whether a dose-response relationship exists is unclear.
objectivesWe performed a metaanalysis to study the magnitude of the association between the different durations of sleep and metabolic syndrome.
methodsWe searched in the databases of PubMed, Web of Science, and Ovid (all Journals@Ovid) from inception to October 4, 2014 for cross-sectional studies where an association between metabolic syndrome and sleep duration was analyzed. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsEighteen studies with 75,657 participants were included. Daily sleep duration of 7 to 8 hours was used as the reference group. The odds ratio (OR) of having metabolic syndrome for short (<7 h) sleep was 1.23 (95% CI, 1.11-1.37; P < 0.001; I(2), 71%). The ORs for less than 5 hours, 5 to 6 hours, and 6 to 7 hours of sleep were 1.51 (95% CI, 1.10-2.08; P = 0.01), 1.28 (95% CI, 1.11-1.48; P < 0.001), and 1.16 (95% CI, 1.02-1.31; P = 0.02), respectively. The coefficient of sleep duration on log of ORs was -0.06 ± 0.02 (P = 0.02). The OR for long sleep duration was 1.13 (95% CI, 0.97-1.32; P = 0.10; I(2), 89%).
conclusionsA dose-response relationship exists between short sleep duration and metabolic syndrome. Those who report a sleep duration of less than 5 hours have a 1.5 higher odds of having metabolic syndrome. Our study does not support the notion that long sleep is associated with metabolic syndrome.
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