Vitamin D and sleep duration: Is there a bidirectional relationship?

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Journal Article

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Hormone Molecular Biology and Clinical Investigation

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DeGruyter

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School of Nursing and Midwifery

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32412

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Mosavat, M., Smyth, A., Arabiat, D., & Whitehead, L. (2020). Vitamin D and sleep duration: Is there a bidirectional relationship?. Hormone Molecular Biology and Clinical Investigation, 41(4).

https://doi.org/10.1515/hmbci-2020-0025

Abstract

Vitamin D contributes to numerous physiological processes within the body but primarily calcium andbone homeostasis. Emerging evidence highlights a novel role for vitamin D in maintaining and regulating optimal sleep. Sleep is a known regulator of bone health,highlighting the interconnectedness between vitamin D concentrations, sleep duration and bone metabolism. It is possible that the relationship between sleep length and vitamin D is bidirectional, with vitamin D playing a role in sleep health and conversely, sleep affecting vitamin D levels. Nevertheless, limited information on the direction of the interaction is available, and much remains to be learned concerning the complex relationship between insufficient sleep duration and vitamin D deficiency. Given the potential to implement interventions to improve sleep and vitamin D supplementation, understanding this relationship further could represent a novel way to support and improve health.

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10.1515/hmbci-2020-0025

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