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Sleep duration and all-cause mortality: a critical review of measurement and associations
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Purpose Variation in sleep duration has been linked with mortality risk. The purpose of this review is to provide an updated evaluation of the literature on sleep duration and mortality, including a critical examination of sleep duration measurement and an examination of correlates of self-reported sleep duration.Methods We conducted a systematic search of studies reporting associations between sleep duration and all-cause mortality and extracted the sleep duration measure and the measure(s) of association.Results We identified 42 prospective studies of sleep duration and mortality drawing on 35 distinct study populations worldwide. Unlike previous reviews, we find that the published literature does not support a consistent finding of an association between self-reported sleep duration and mortality. Most studies have employed survey measures of sleep duration, which are not highly correlated with estimates based on physiologic measures.Conclusions Despite a large body of literature, it is premature to conclude, as previous reviews have, that a robust, U-shaped association between sleep duration and mortality risk exists across populations. Careful attention must be paid to measurement, response bias, confounding, and reverse causation in the interpretation of associations between sleep duration and mortality.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kurina, L. M., McClintock, M. K., Chen, J.-H., Waite, L. J., Thisted, R. A., & Lauderdale, D. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kurina, Lianne M.
- Venue
- Annals of Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-06
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 361-370
- ISSN
- 1047-2797 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3660511
- OpenAlex
- W1972070448
- Cited by
- 218
- References
- 121
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 28 · 2013: 5
- FWCI
- 3.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Annals of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG042164, R01AG033903, R37AG030481)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Keywords
- sleep duration, all-cause mortality, self-reported sleep duration, U-shaped relationship, response bias, reverse causality, confounding
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cause of Death, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Sleep, Time Factors, Risk Assessment
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