ArticleSleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung2023
Relationship between sleep disorders and female infertility among US reproductive-aged women.
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- Sleep disturbances and female infertility: a systematic review.BMC women's health · 2024Pooled it
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- Association of pre-pregnancy and pregnancy sleep on the risk of postpartum depression: a nationwide birth cohort-the Japan Environment and Children's Study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Determining the relationship between sleep quality and reproductive health issues in fertile and infertile men and women: A cross-sectional study.Sleep medicine: X · 2025Article
- Association between cardiometabolic index and infertility among American women aged 20-45 years: a cross-sectional analysis from 2013-2020 NHANES data.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Association between Life's Essential 8 and Infertility as Well as the Mediating Effects of Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Factors Among U.S. Women Aged 18-45 Years.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2025Article
- Sleep Disturbances Associated with Different Systems of the Body: Underlying Mechanisms Involved and Consequences.Current medicinal chemistry · 2025Review
- Higher Life's Crucial 9 protects against infertility among U.S. women aged 18-45 years.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Global Spatiotemporal Trends and Modifiable Risk Factors for Female Infertility: An Age-Period-Cohort Using Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 and Mendelian Randomization Analysis.International journal of women's health · 2025Article
- Combined impact of sleep and obesity on female infertility in the NHANES 2017-2020.BMC women's health · 2024Article
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- Common mental disorders and risk of female infertility: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
- Influence of lifestyle and the circadian clock on reproduction.Reproductive medicine and biologyReview
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Abstract
purposeSleep disorders are a risk factor for a wide variety of dysfunctions of endocrine, metabolic, cardiovascular, and neurological diseases. However, the risk of sleep disorders to female infertility has not been thoroughly explored. Our study aimed to examine whether or not sleep disorders increase the risk of female infertility.
methodsCross-sectional data on sleep disorders and fertility history were obtained from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2013-2018. Women aged 20 to 40 years old were enrolled in our study. Weighted multivariable logistic regression models and stratified analysis by age, smokers, and patient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) score were conducted to estimate the effect of sleep disorders on female infertility.
resultAmong 1820 reproductive-age females, 248 individuals had infertility and 430 individuals had sleep disorders. Two weighted logistic regression models found that sleep disorders were an independent risk factor for infertility. After adjusting for the covariates (age, race/ethnicity, marital status, education level, poverty income ratio, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, PHQ-9 score, smokers, drinkers, and sleeping hours), the risk of infertility was 2.14-fold higher in individuals with sleep disorders than in those without. The further stratified analysis demonstrated that the relationship between sleep disorders and infertility was maintained and that the risk was higher particularly in infertile women aged 40-44 years, with PHQ-9 score greater than 10, and smokers.
conclusionA strong association was found between sleep disorders and female infertility, and the association remained after adjusting for other confounding factors.
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