Sleep duration and risk of stroke: a dose–response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

Suboptimal sleep duration has been considered to increase the risk of stroke incidence. Thus we aimed to conduct a dose–response meta-analysis to examine the association between sleep duration and stroke incidence. We searched PubMed, Web of science and the Cochrane Library to identify all prospective studies evaluating the association of sleep duration and nonfatal and/or fatal stroke incidence. Then, restricted cubic spline functions and...