Healthy sleep may lower risk of Long COVID
Senior research scientist and Center Member Andrea Roberts and Center Director Marc Weisskopf were among the authors of a study published in Jama Network entitled “Multidimensional sleep health prior to SARS-CoV-2 infection and risk of post-Covid-19 condition.” The researchers assessed the sleep health of women enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study II who tested positive for COVID-19 between April 2020 and November 2021. Each participant’s sleep health—which they reported on both before and during the pandemic—was given a score from zero (least healthy) to five (most healthy). Scores were based on factors like sleep duration (hours slept per night) and quality (including experiences such as insomnia, snoring, or daytime dysfunction).