INSUFFICIENT and disturbed sleep during the teenage years may heighten the subsequent risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), suggests a case-control study published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
Clocking up enough hours of restorative sleep while young may help to ward off the condition, suggested the researchers.
To explore this further, the researchers drew on a population-based case-control study, the Epidemiological Investigation of Multiple Sclerosis, comprising 16 70-year-old Swedish residents.
Compared with sleeping seven to nine hrs per night during the teenage years, short sleep of less than seven hrs was associated with a 40% heightened risk of getting MS subsequently, after accounting for potentially influential factors, including BMI at age 20 and smoking.
But long sleep, including at weekends or on free days, wasn't linked with a heightened MS risk.
Changes in sleep timing between work or school days and weekends or free days didn't seem to be influential.
The researchers said the findings should be interpreted cautiously.
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