{"id":12534,"date":"2025-06-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=12534"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:21:10","slug":"long-term-effects-of-covid-19-on-sleep-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=12534","title":{"rendered":"Long-term Effects of COVID-19 on Sleep Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Turk Thorac, DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5152\/ThoracResPract.2024.24013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10.5152\/ThoracResPract.2024.24013<\/a>, <a>Salma Batool-Anwar<\/a>, <a>Olabimpe S. Fashanu<\/a>., <a>Stuart F. Quan<\/a>, Thoracic Research &amp; Practice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>OBJECTIVE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To examine the long-term impact of Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) on sleep patterns and the prevalence of sleep disorders and to increase public health awareness of long-term COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MATERIAL AND METHODS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the Massachusetts General Brigham Research Patient Data Registry, Severe acute respiratory syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) positive patients were surveyed about their sleep patterns before and after the viral infection. Information related to comorbid conditions and medications was obtained through chart review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RESULTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two hundred and forty-six completed surveys were analyzed. Average age was 53.3\u00b116.3 years, and they were predominantly non-hispanic white (84.1%) and female (74.3%). The mean body mass index (kg\/m<sup>2<\/sup>) was 29.9\u00b16.9, and a greater proportion were non-smokers (63.2%). After COVID-19, there was an increase in the percentage of participants reporting difficulty initiating (39\u00b149% vs. 31\u00b146% prior to COVID-19 infection&nbsp;<em>P&nbsp;<\/em>= 0.01). Similarly, the participants reported difficulty in maintaining sleep after COVID infection (57% vs. 43% prior to infection&nbsp;<em>P&nbsp;<\/em>&lt; 0.001). Additionally, there was an increase in the use of sleep aids (30% vs. 24% before the infection&nbsp;<em>P<\/em>&nbsp;= 0.003). The participants also reported a decrease in feeling rested and an increase in the need for napping (58% vs. 36%,&nbsp;<em>P&nbsp;<\/em>&lt; 0.0001) and (27% vs. 40%,&nbsp;<em>P &lt;&nbsp;<\/em>0.0001) respectively. The sleep symptoms persisted beyond 12 months in 28% of the participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONCLUSION<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SARS-CoV-2 infection had negative effects on sleep, and a significant proportion of adults experienced insomnia and daytime sleepiness beyond 12 months after recovering from the initial infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turk Thorac, DOI:\u00a010.5152\/ThoracResPract.2024.24013, Salma Batool-Anwar, Olabimpe S. Fashanu., Stuart F. Quan, Thoracic Research &amp; Practice Abstract OBJECTIVE To examine the long-term impact of Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) on sleep patterns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[843,289,290,536,537,949],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insomnia","category-long-haul-disease","category-long-term-effects","category-sleep","category-sleep-deprivation","category-sleep-disturbance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12536,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions\/12536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}