• Study finds persistent racial and ethnic

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    Study finds persistent racial and ethnic disparities in sleep duration


    Date:
    April 7, 2022
    Source:
    Yale University
    Summary:
    Using data collected by the National Health Interview Survey from
    2004 to 2018, researchers found that the proportion of people
    who reported sleeping fewer than seven hours per day increased
    significantly over the 15-year period, and it was significantly
    higher among Black people.



    FULL STORY ========================================================================== Using data collected by the National Health Interview Survey from 2004
    to 2018, researchers found that the proportion of people who reported
    sleeping fewer than seven hours per day increased significantly over
    the 15-year period, and it was significantly higher among Black people.


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    The study was published on April 7 in JAMA Network Open.

    "As an indicator of sleep health, adequate sleep duration is essential
    for achieving and maintaining a healthy life," said lead author Ce'sar Caraballo- Cordovez, MD, postdoctoral associate in the Yale-based Center
    for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). "The current expert consensus
    is that most adults should get between 7 and 9 hours of sleep in a 24-hour period; and we found that Black people, on average, were persistently
    less likely to report sleeping such recommended duration. Specifically,
    we found that over the 15 years we analyzed, Black people had the highest prevalence of both short sleep duration [fewer than seven hours] and long
    sleep duration [more than nine hours]." The Yale-led team reported that,
    in 2018, the percentage of people reporting short sleep duration was 11
    points higher among Black people when compared with white people. The same disparity was 7.5 points in 2004. They investigated how these findings
    varied by sex and household income and found that the disparities were the highest for Black women and Black individuals with middle or high income.

    There were also differences between racial and ethnic groups when
    sleep duration was analyzed by age. For instance, they found that the disparities were the highest for young and middle-aged Black adults,
    slightly narrowing among the elderly. "This suggests that factors related
    to working or employment conditions are disproportionally preventing
    Black individuals from having adequate sleep," said Caraballo-Cordovez.

    Sleep is closely related to overall physical and mental health, said
    senior author Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor
    of Medicine at Yale and director of CORE.

    "Both short sleep and long sleep duration are associated with higher risk
    of suffering adverse medical events, including higher risk of death,"
    he said.

    "Thus, the persistent sleep disparities for Black people may be
    contributing to the persistent average worse health status among Black
    people There should be renewed efforts to eliminate the socioeconomic and health conditions that prevent minoritized racial and ethnic individuals
    from achieving adequate sleep-including racism." The study team included Shiwani Mahajan, MBBS, MHS; Javier Valero-Elizondo, MD, MPH; Yuan Lu,
    ScD; Daisy Massey, Amarnath R. Annapureddy, MD; Brita Roy, MD, MPH, MHS;
    Carley Riley, MD, MPP, MHS; Karthik Murugiah, MBBS; Johanna Elumn, MSW,
    PhD; Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS; Howard P. Forman, MD, MBA; Chandra
    Jackson, PhD, MS; Khurram Nasir, MD, SM; and Jeph Herrin, PhD.


    ========================================================================== Story Source: Materials provided by Yale_University. Original written
    by Elisabeth Reitman.

    Note: Content may be edited for style and length.


    ========================================================================== Journal Reference:
    1. Baylee F. Bakkila, Daniel Kerekes, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Kevin G.

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    Treated With Surgery. JAMA Network Open, 2022; 5 (4): e225664 DOI:
    10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.5664 ==========================================================================

    Link to news story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220407121605.htm

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