Association Between Sleep Apnea, Sleep Duration, and Serum Lipid Profile in an Urban, Male, Working Population in Japan.

The article presents a study on relationships among obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), sleep duration, and the lipid profile in a community-based study in Japan. The study measured the respiratory disturbance index (RDI) and sleep duration by a type 3 portable device and actigraph in 275 men, of which 143 had dyslipidemia, in a Japanese company. It finds that short sleep duration was linked to serum total cholesterol levels and that RDI was positively associated with serum triglyceride levels.