Christi S. Ulmer

Mar 11, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Andrew Sherwood |Christi S. Ulmer |Jade Wu |James A. Blumenthal

1 BACKGROUND There is a growing body of evidence that insomnia is a cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor. In a meta-analysis of 17 observational cohort studies, with a combined sample size of 311,260 participants free of CVD at baseline, Li and colleagues1 found that insomnia was associated with a 41% increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI), coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, or CVD mortality over a 1-year follow-up period.