Effects of sleep extension on sleep duration, sleepiness, and blood pressure in college students

Sleep is a major lifestyle factor that may change dramatically when students begin college. Sleep duration has been shown to influence cardiometabolic health. We investigated the feasibility of sleep extension in college students to increase actigraphically measured sleep duration and the association of sleep extension with daytime sleepiness and blood pressure. This was a within-participant experimental study. The study setting was 14-day...