Vitamin D and sleep duration: Is there a bidirectional relationship?
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.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
2020
Publication Title
Hormone Molecular Biology and Clinical Investigation
Publisher
DeGruyter
School
School of Nursing and Midwifery
RAS ID
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