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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Hypertens Rep. 2018 May 1;20(5):42. doi: 10.1007/s11906-018-0841-7

Table 5.

Studies included in the systematic review assessing sleep and inflammation

Source Study design Subjects Age range/mean Sleep parameter Outcome variables Results
Carson (2016) Cross-sectional 4169 Canadians Mean age = 11.4 Sleep duration: Parent and child self-report C-reactive proteins No association between sleep and CRP
Hall (2015) Cross-sectional 244 14–19 Mean age = 15.71 Sleep duration: actigraphy C-reactive proteins Shorter weekday sleep duration associated with higher CRP risk; Sleep debt associated with higher CRP risk
Jakubowski (2016) Cross-sectional 234 14–19 Mean age = 15.7 Daytime napping: actigraphy C-reactive proteins Interlukin-6 Proportion of days napped positively associated with IL-6. No association between napping and CRP.