The relationship between healthy sleep patterns and the risk of scoliosis: a large prospective cohort study
Wanyue Li, Shuxiao Ma, Mei Hu, Yanzhao Hao, Ying Li, Xiguo Cai, Weisheng Zhuang, Ruihua Sun · 2026
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Wanyue Li and co-authors study sleep habits and spine curve risk in a 2026 long follow up study from a British health bank. Sideways spine curves can arise in adult life, yet forward looking proof on sleep as a risk factor was near absent. A five part sleep score joined bed time type, sleep length, sleeplessness, snoring, and day sleepiness into one habit grade.
Among 408870 adults free of the curve at the start, 2976 new cases arose over a mean span near sixteen years. Each added healthy sleep trait cut risk by about a tenth in the adjusted counts, and those with all five traits faced far lower risk than those with almost none. The link held across most subgroups, which hints sleep care may aid spine health.
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| CREATOR | Wanyue Li, Shuxiao Ma, Mei Hu, Yanzhao Hao, Ying Li, Xiguo Cai, Weisheng Zhuang, Ruihua Sun |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45608 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |