The joint effect of sleep duration and disturbed sleep on cause-specific mortality: results from the Whitehall II cohort study.

Both sleep duration and sleep quality are related to future health, but their combined effects on mortality are unsettled. We aimed to examine the individual and joint effects of sleep duration and sleep disturbances on cause-specific mortality in a large prospective cohort study.We included 9,098 m...

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Main Authors: Naja Hulvej Rod, Meena Kumari, Theis Lange, Mika Kivimäki, Martin Shipley, Jane Ferrie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3974730?pdf=render