Sleep Disorder and Long-Term Mortality Among Sepsis Survivors: A Nationwide Cohort Study in South Korea.
In-Ae SongHye Yoon ParkTak Kyu OhPublished in: Nature and science of sleep (2021)
A 6.4% of sepsis survivors in South Korea were newly diagnosed with a sleep disorder within 1 year of sepsis diagnosis. Although both pre- and post-sepsis sleep disorders were associated with a higher 5-year all-cause mortality rate, the risk of the 5-year all-cause mortality in the post-sepsis sleep disorder group was higher than that in the pre-sepsis sleep disorder group.