Associations of sleep and circadian phenotypes with COVID-19 susceptibility and hospitalization : an observational cohort study based on the UK Biobank and a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

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STUDY OBJECTIVES: Sleep and circadian phenotypes are associated with several diseases. The present study aimed to investigate whether sleep and circadian phenotypes were causally linked with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related outcomes.

METHODS: Habitual sleep duration, insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, daytime napping, and chronotype were selected as exposures. Key outcomes included positivity and hospitalization for COVID-19. In the observation cohort study, multivariable risk ratios (RRs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated. Two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses were conducted to estimate the causal effects of the significant findings in the observation analyses. Odds ratios (ORs) and the corresponding 95% CIs were calculated and compared using the inverse variance weighting, weighted median, and MR-Egger methods.

RESULTS: In the UK Biobank cohort study, both often excessive daytime sleepiness and sometimes daytime napping were associated with hospitalized COVID-19 (excessive daytime sleepiness [often vs. never]: RR = 1.24, 95% CI = 1.02-1.5; daytime napping [sometimes vs. never]: RR = 1.12, 95% CI = 1.02-1.22). In addition, sometimes daytime napping was also associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 susceptibility (sometimes vs. never: RR = 1.04, 95% CI = 1.01-1.28). In the MR analyses, excessive daytime sleepiness was found to increase the risk of hospitalized COVID-19 (MR IVW method: OR = 4.53, 95% CI = 1.04-19.82), whereas little evidence supported a causal link between daytime napping and COVID-19 outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: Observational and genetic evidence supports a potential causal link between excessive daytime sleepiness and an increased risk of COVID-19 hospitalization, suggesting that interventions targeting excessive daytime sleepiness symptoms might decrease severe COVID-19 rate.

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CommentIn: Sleep. 2022 Jul 11;45(7):. - PMID 35567789

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:45

Enthalten in:

Sleep - 45(2022), 6 vom: 13. Juni

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liu, Zheran [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Yaxin [VerfasserIn]
Su, Yonglin [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Zhigong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ruidan [VerfasserIn]
He, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Lianlian [VerfasserIn]
Pei, Yiyan [VerfasserIn]
Ren, Jianjun [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Xingchen [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Xiaolin [VerfasserIn]

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COVID-19
Cohort study
Journal Article
Mendelian randomization
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Sleep

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Date Completed 14.06.2022

Date Revised 23.08.2022

published: Print

CommentIn: Sleep. 2022 Jul 11;45(7):. - PMID 35567789

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/sleep/zsac003

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NLM335689264