Incident diabetes mellitus may explain the association between sleep duration and incident coronary heart disease.
Akiko Kishi SvenssonThomas SvenssonMariusz KitlinskiPeter AlmgrenGunnar EngströmPeter M NilssonOlle MelanderPublished in: Diabetologia (2017)
The associations between sleep duration and incident CHD directly reflect the associations between sleep duration and incident diabetes. Incident diabetes may thus be the explanatory mechanism for the association between short and long sleep duration and incident CHD.