Late bedtime and too little or too much sleep were associated with higher odds for hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia and metabolic syndrome, according to a study published in Journal of the American Heart Association.
“A large body of evidence has now linked altered sleep pattern with poor cardiometabolic health,” Peipei Hu, MD, from the department of pediatrics at Xinhua Hospital at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and the Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research in Shanghai, and colleagues wrote. “The present study aimed to investigate the independent and