Sleeping well linked to a lower risk of long COVID

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Here’s another good reason to get a good night’s sleep: a healthy sleep is associated with a substantially decreased risk of long COVID symptoms such as impaired daily function, fatigue, persistent cough, depression, and brain fog, according to international researchers. The team looked at 1,979 women who reported testing positive for COVID-19, and gave them a pre-pandemic sleep score of 0-5 based on a number of factors including hours of sleep per day, low insomnia symptoms and snoring (with five being most healthy). They found those with a pre-pandemic sleep score of 5 had a 30% lower risk of long COVID compared to those with a sleep score of 0 or 1.

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conference: JAMA Network Open

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Organisation/s: Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, USA

Funder: This work was supported by grant 3R01HD094725-02S1 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Dr Roberts); grants U01HL145386, R24ES028521, U01 CA176726, R01 CA67262, and R01 HD057368 from the National Institutes of Health; a Dean’s Fund for Scientific Advancement Acceleration Award from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and an Evergrande COVID-19 Response Fund Award from the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness.

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