Defining and Evaluating Sleep Health

Sleep quality is consequential to cardiovascular health.

• We're just beginning to understand the effects of short sleep duration at the molecular and cellular level.
• Among other side effects, lack of sleep causes our organs to secrete hormones that cause us to eat more than we really need.
• What are the characteristics of healthy sleep? Sleep is important for our health, but we often take it for granted. Unfortunately, sleep is often the first thing to go when we are pressed for time.

In this informative podcast Drs. Dayna Johnson, Anne Fink and Konrad Sawicki discuss the implications of sleep for our cardiovascular health and how, at a population level, sleep quality, or lack of it, is a public health concern. Listen and learn from experts in sleep health on the definition and evaluation of sleep health.