Sleep and cardiovascular diseases: time for action and new methods

The importance of good sleep to health has been highlighted in numerous studies during previous decades. Consequently, dimensions of sleep are emerging as new and indisputable risk factors of many key public health problems, including cardiovascular diseases. The role of classical risk factors such as smoking, heavy drinking, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and obesity is well established in cardiovascular health,¹ but public health research nor practice and recommendations can no longer ignore sleep alongside other risk factors to prevent and assess cardiovascular diseases. Accordingly, it has been suggested that poor sleep could be included in the list of leading 10 potentially modifiable cardiovascular risk factors.¹

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