High-quality sleep was associated with a reduced mortality risk, according to data presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.
“We saw a clear dose-response relationship, so the more beneficial factors someone has in terms of having higher quality of sleep, they also have a stepwise lowering of all cause and cardiovascular mortality,” Frank Qian, MD, an internal medicine resident physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School, said in a press release.
It was the top story in cardiology last week.