Study links low-quality sleep with chronic disease

The research shows that by getting enough sleep and reducing variability around sleep onset and wake times, patients can reduce the incidence of chronic disease. Insufficient, irregular and poor-quality sleep is associated with many chronic conditions, including obesity, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Those were the main conclusions of a study recently published in the journal Nature Medicine from corresponding author Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI, professor of Medicine.