Sleep Pattern and Risk for Arrhythmias

There is an increasing focus on the importance of proper sleep to good health. Investigators leveraged the UK Biobank to explore the association between a healthy sleep pattern and risk for cardiac arrhythmias.

Participants with atrial fibrillation (AF), ventricular arrhythmias, bradyarrhythmia, or missing information on self-reported sleep behavior were excluded. The investigators created a 5-point sleep score based on a healthy sleep pattern, defined as early chronotype (“morning” person), sleep duration 7 to 8 hours per day, never/rarely or sometimes experiencing insomnia or excessive daytime sleepiness, and never snoring.

Of roughly 400,000 participants included in the analysis, 21% had scores of 5 (positive on all healthy behaviors). Tho…