CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Higher sleep scores were associated with lower mortality hazard, according to a study presented at the SLEEP 2022 meeting.
Joon Chung, PhD, a research fellow in the division of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School, shared results on multidimensional sleep health from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), an ethnically diverse prospective cohort study.
Previous research on this topic has generally focused on individual factors such as sleep insufficiency, according to the study, but sleep health consists of multiple interrelated dimensions.
The MESA study