Persistent Insomnia is Associated with Mortality Risk

Mortality associated with sleep duration and insomnia.

BACKGROUND Patients often complain about insufficient sleep or chronic insomnia in the belief that they need 8 hours of sleep. Treatment strategies may be guided by what sleep durations predict optimal survival and whether insomnia might signal mortality risks. METHODS In 1982, the Cancer Prevention Study II of the American Cancer Society asked participants about their sleep duration and freq...

Persistent Hyperglycemia Is Associated With Increased Mortality After Intracerebral Hemorrhage

BACKGROUND Hyperglycemia may be associated with worse outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). We assessed the association of early glycemic trajectory on ICH mortality and edema growth. METHODS AND RESULTS We included patients from the Helsinki ICH study with glucose measurements at least once between both 0 to 24 and 24 to 72 hours from onset. Hyperglycemia was defined as blood glucose...

Neighborhood cohesion is associated with reduced risk of stroke mortality.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Greater social cohesion is related to lower rates of coronary heart disease, but its relation to stroke risk is unstudied. This study examined whether neighborhood social cohesion was protective against stroke mortality and incidence. METHODS Data come from 5789 participants (60% female; 62% black; mean age, 74.7 years) in a longitudinal study of chronic diseases in the...

Is homoarginine level associated with high cardiovascular risk and mortality?

Caregiving behavior is associated with decreased mortality risk.

Traditional investigations of caregiving link it to increased caregiver morbidity and mortality, but do not disentangle the effects of providing care from those of being continuously exposed to an ailing loved one with serious health problems. We explored this possible confound in a national, longitudinal survey of elderly married individuals (N= 3,376). Results showed that spending at least 14...