Sleep Duration and Cardiovascular Health (Goldilocks)

This is a cross-sectional study with an optional intervention that will examine how extreme sleep durations relate to cardiovascular health, physical activity, and sleep quality by studying three groups of participants: short sleepers (≤ 6 hrs), long sleepers (≥ 9 hrs), and average duration sleepers (7-8 hrs). The optional intervention asks participants to maintain an 8-hour per night regular sleep schedule for one week.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Sleep; Cardiovascular Risk Factor
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Regularized Sleep Schedule

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

1. To test the hypothesis that vascular endothelial function in the brachial artery, and other associated cardiovascular risk markers are impaired in short sleepers and long sleepers as compared to the control group of average duration sleepers.

To test the hypothesis that the optional intervention to maintain an 8-hour per night sleep schedule will alleviate vascular endothelial function impairment.

OUTLINE:

Participants will measure sleep, physical activity, and blood pressure with at-home devices before coming in for one in-lab visit, where they will have vascular function and blood markers measured, as well as an optional CT scan to measure calcium in the coronary arteries. An optional intervention may occur after this: Participants will continue the at-home measures while maintaining a chosen regular 8-hour per night sleep schedule, before coming in for a second in-lab visit with all same measures except for CT scan.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 24
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Nicole Chaudhary, MPH; Phone Number: 5034942064; Email: burkeni@ohsu.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Oregon
    • Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239
      • Recruiting
      • Oregon Health and Science University
      • Contact: Saurabh S Thosar, PhD; Phone Number: 503-494-2064; Email: clinphys@ohsu.edu
      • Principal Investigator: Saurabh S Thosar, PhD

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 25 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men and women ages 25-65y
• Lean and overweight (BMI 18.5-40 kg/m2)
• No acute, chronic, or debilitating medical conditions
• No prescription/non-prescription medications or drugs of abuse
• Current non-smoker (tobacco and marijuana)
• Persons who fit all the above criteria and are suitable based on a medical history and health habits questionnaire, and additional sleep and health profiling questionnaires may be eligible to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Persons with any acute, chronic, or debilitating medical condition except pre-hypertension will be excluded.
• Persons with any symptoms of acute or active illness (e.g. fever, leukocytosis) will be excluded.
• Persons with a history of severe psychiatric illness or psychiatric disorders will be excluded.
• Persons with a history of regular night/or rotating shift work in the past year, or who have traveled more than three time zones during the one month prior to the study will be excluded.
• Pregnant women, decisionally impaired adults, and prisoners will be excluded.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Short Sleepers; Reported nightly sleep time of ≤6 hours	Behavioral: Regularized Sleep Schedule; Participants may maintain a self-selected 8-hour per night sleep schedule as an optional intervention. Participants from any of the three groups may complete the intervention.
Experimental: Long Sleepers; Reported nightly sleep time of ≥9 hours	Behavioral: Regularized Sleep Schedule; Participants may maintain a self-selected 8-hour per night sleep schedule as an optional intervention. Participants from any of the three groups may complete the intervention.
Experimental: Average Duration Sleepers; Reported nightly sleep time of 7-8 hours	Behavioral: Regularized Sleep Schedule; Participants may maintain a self-selected 8-hour per night sleep schedule as an optional intervention. Participants from any of the three groups may complete the intervention.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Vascular Endothelial Function	Investigators will measure endothelial function as flow-mediated dilation.	2 weeks
Cardiovascular Risk	Investigators will measure cardiovascular risk as carotid intima-media thickness (IMT).	2 weeks
Coronary Atherosclerotic Burden	Investigators may measure coronary atherosclerotic measure from a computerized tomography (CT) scan. This measure is optional for participants. The scan will be used to calculate coronary artery calcium score (CAC score and/or Agatston score). The CAC score indicates risk of future coronary artery events. A CAC score of 0 indicates absence of coronary artery calcification. A score of 0 is very low risk, and risk increases with increasing numbers (e.g. 100-300 is increased risk, >300 is very high risk). Higher scores may indicate higher risk of future coronary events. The Agatston score is also an atherosclerotic measure that may indicate risk of future coronary artery events. Agatston also goes up from 1 on a linear scale (e.g. 1-100 is discreet atherosclerosis, up to 400 is moderate, >400 is severe).	2 weeks
Heart rate	Heart rate will be measured as beats per minute while participants are in a supine position.	2 weeks
Blood pressure	Blood pressure (systolic and diastolic) will be measured in a supine position in the dominant arm.	2 weeks
24-hour BP measurement	Investigators will measure 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (AMBP, Spacelabs, Inc) for 24-h period before each in-lab visit, including the optional visit. Both systolic and diastolic blood pressure will be measured.	2 weeks
Sleep duration	Sleep duration will be scored from the ActiGraph and correlated with the sleep and activity diary.	2 weeks
Sleep efficiency	Sleep efficiency will be scored from the ActiGraph and correlated with the sleep and activity diary. Sleep efficiency measures amount of time asleep while in bed. This is measured from 0-100%, where 0 indicates low sleep efficiency, or no sleep in bed, and higher percent indicates more sleep, or higher sleep efficiency while in bed.	2 weeks
Physical Activity	Activity will be scored from the ActiGraph and correlated with the sleep and activity diary.	2 weeks
Total Mood Disturbance	Total Mood Disturbance will be measured from the Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaire. Participants will rate their mood states on a likert scale of 0-4. POMS may indicate both positive and negative moods. There is a minimum score of 0, and maximum of 260. In general, lower scores indicate less mood disturbance, while higher scores indicate higher mood disturbance. Subsets of particular scores may indicate particular mood states.	2 weeks
Timing of caloric intake	Timing of caloric intake may be measured by participant completion of a 7-day photographic food diary before the in-lab visits. MealLoggerTM(Wellness Foundry, New York, http://www.meallogger.com). Photographs are time stamped, indicating timing of caloric intake.	2 weeks
Content of caloric intake	Content of caloric intake may be measured by participant completion of a 7-day photographic food diary before the in-lab visits. MealLoggerTM(Wellness Foundry, New York, http://www.meallogger.com) These photographs may be assessed to identify micronutrients and macronutrients in content of food.	2 weeks
Blood Cholesterol	Blood cholesterol (measured in plasma according to laboratory values) may be measured by a complete blood count after blood draw. This is a hypothesis generating variable. Higher values may indicate increased cardiovascular risk.	2 weeks
Blood fasting glucose	Blood fasting glucose (measured in plasma according to laboratory values) may be measured by a complete blood count after blood draw. This is a hypothesis generating variable. Higher values may indicate increased cardiovascular risk.	2 weeks
C-reactive protein	C-reactive protein (measured in plasma according to laboratory values) may be measured by lab tests after blood draw as a blood inflammatory marker. This is a hypothesis generating variable. Higher values may indicate increased cardiovascular risk.	2 weeks
Interleukins	Interleukin 6 (IL-6), Interleukin 1(IL-1 β), interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), interleukin 18 (IL-18), measured in plasma according to laboratory values, may be measured by lab tests after blood draw as blood inflammatory markers. This is a hypothesis generating variable. Higher values may indicate increased cardiovascular risk.	2 weeks
Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1	Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (measured in plasma according to laboratory values) may be measured by lab tests after blood draw as a blood inflammatory marker. This is a hypothesis generating variable. Higher values may indicate increased cardiovascular risk.	2 weeks
P-selectin	P-selectin (measured in plasma according to laboratory values) may be measured by lab tests after blood draw as a blood inflammatory marker. This is a hypothesis generating variable. Higher values may indicate increased cardiovascular risk.	2 weeks
Blood cortisol	Cortisol (measured in plasma according to laboratory values) may be measured by lab tests after blood draw as a measure of stress. This is a hypothesis generating variable. Higher values may indicate increased cardiovascular risk.	2 weeks
Body Mass Index (BMI)	Weight and height will be combined to report BMI in kg/m^2.	2 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Saurabh S Thosar, PhD, Oregon Health and Science University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 9, 2021
• Primary Completion (Estimated): March 15, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 15, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 10, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 15, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): March 18, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 14, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 9, 2025
• Last Verified: May 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: cardiovascular; sleep duration; vascular endothelial function
• Other Study ID Numbers: 00021448

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No