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Posted on Jun 17, 2010, 6 a.m.
An inability to sleep may result in a three-fold greater risk for death from all causes.
Individuals with chronic insomnia have an elevated risk of death from all causes, report Laurel Finn, from the University of Wisconsin/Madison (Wisconsin, USA), and colleagues. Analyzing data from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, involving 2,242 men and women, who were followed for 19 years, the team found that the adjusted hazard ratio for all-cause mortality was three times higher in people with chronic insomnia than in people without insomnia. Observing that: "Insomnia is a burdensome symptom and has a negative impact on sleep quality that may lead people to seek treatment," the team urges that: "The identification of insomnia as a mortality risk factor may have clinical implications and raise the priority level for insomnia treatment."
Finn L, Peppard PE, Szklo-Coxe M, Young T. “Chronic Insomina and All-Cause Mortality in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort” (#0607 Poster Board 119), presented at SLEEP 2010 (24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC), 7 June 2010.
