Posted on 07/29/2022 8:16:08 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Short sleep duration is causally associated with an increased risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a study..
Rui-Chen Gao and colleagues examined whether sleep disorders are causally associated with RA. Seven sleep-related traits were selected: short sleep duration, frequent insomnia, any insomnia, sleep duration, getting up, morningness (early-to-bed/up habit), and snoring and 27, 53, 57, 57, 70, 274, and 42 individual single-nucleotide polymorphisms were obtained for these traits as instrumental variables. Outcome variables were obtained from a public genome-wide association study, including 14,361 cases and 43,923 controls of European ancestry. A two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis using inverse variance weighted (IVW), MR-Egger regression, weighted median, and weight mode methods was used to assess the causal correlation between sleep disturbances and RA.
The researchers found no evidence of a correlation between RA and frequent insomnia, any insomnia, sleep duration, getting up, morningness, or snoring. A causal effect was seen for short sleep duration (six hours) on RA, as supported by IVW and weighted median (odds ratios, 1.47 and 1.43, respectively). These results were stable in sensitivity analyses.
"Our results reveal the causal relationship between gene-predicted sleep traits and RA, and we only identify the causal relationship between short sleep and RA, which is somewhat inconsistent with many published observational studies," the authors write.
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I even have used ear plugs and a comfortable eye mask, as well as lowering the thermostat. I haven’t used melatonin for awhile because it’s not been needed.
Exercise helps with sleep, too.
We have repair processes running while we sleep. It even helps cut down COVID and flu durations.
Maybe RA in the early stages causes shortened sleep periods.
I have RA and I slept very well both before and after so I don’t put much credence in this study.
Not sleep apnea? That's weird.
I have absolutely no problem falling asleep, insomnia is rare, and I never have to get up at night to urinate (age 70), but getting more than six continuous hours of sleep is almost impossible for me. I've been doing a lot of intensive yard renovation work with a lot of hard physical work the past three weeks, but it surprisingly hasn't helped my sleep. I think LED screens before bed are bad news, but I can't break the habit!
After a certain age short bursts of sleep are typical
” A two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis using inverse variance weighted (IVW), MR-Egger regression, weighted median, and weight mode methods was used to assess the causal correlation between sleep disturbances and RA. “
Easy for you to say.
Your gut needs good sleep. Hugely involved in the nightly repair proc3ss.
Get f.lux. Seriously.
It never ran on iOS, Apple wouldn’t let you get at the hardware enough. But a few years ago, they put the functionality into iOS. There are screen setting that allow you to get the same effect that f.lux gives you with Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
That was my first thought, too.
Nothing like being in pain to interfere with a good night’s sleep.
Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis after vaccination against SARS‐CoV‐2 infection
Read later.
That feature to turn the screen a warm color is built into IOS and I use it.
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