A Healthy Sleep Pattern Is Linked to Lower Risk for Heart Failure

With sleep increasingly mentioned as a possible cardiovascular risk factor, many of us wonder whether we should ask patients about the quality of their sleep. Investigators studied the association between sleep habits and incident heart failure by analyzing data from the UK Biobank, a prospective cohort of about 500,000 people aged 37 to 73. Of the approximately 400,000 participants with sleep information and no baseline heart failure, 5221 experienced incident heart failure during the 10 years of follow-up.

A healthy profile was defined as an early chronotype (morning person), 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night, never/rare or occasional insomnia, no snoring, and no daytime sleepiness. Each factor was coded as 1 if present, and the model adjust…