Foram S Jasani1, Azizi A Seixas2,3, Kumbirai Madondo4,5, Yan Li4,5, Girardin Jean-Louis2,3, José A Pagán4,6,7. 1. Center for Evaluation and Applied Research, The New York Academy of Medicine. 2. Departments of Population Health. 3. Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health. 4. Center for Health Innovation, The New York Academy of Medicine. 5. Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 6. Department of Public Health Policy and Management, College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY. 7. Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the average incremental health care expenditures associated with habitual long and short duration of sleep as compared with healthy/average sleep duration. DATA SOURCE: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data (2012; N=6476) linked to the 2010-2011 National Health Interview Survey. STUDY DESIGN: Annual differences in health care expenditures are estimated for habitual long and short duration sleepers as compared with average duration sleepers using 2-part logit generalized linear regression models. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Habitual short duration sleepers reported an additional $1400 in total unadjusted health care expenditures compared to people with average sleep duration (P<0.01). After adjusting for demographics, socioeconomic factors, and health behavior factors, this difference remained significant with an additional $1278 in total health care expenditures over average duration sleepers (P<0.05). Long duration sleepers reported even higher, $2994 additional health care expenditures over average duration sleepers. This difference in health care expenditures remained significantly high ($1500, P<0.01) in the adjusted model. Expenditure differences are more pronounced for inpatient hospitalization, office expenses, prescription expenses, and home health care expenditures. CONCLUSIONS: Habitual short and long sleep duration is associated with higher health care expenditures, which is consistent with the association between unhealthy sleep duration and poorer health outcomes.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the average incremental health care expenditures associated with habitual long and short duration of sleep as compared with healthy/average sleep duration. DATA SOURCE: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data (2012; N=6476) linked to the 2010-2011 National Health Interview Survey. STUDY DESIGN: Annual differences in health care expenditures are estimated for habitual long and short duration sleepers as compared with average duration sleepers using 2-part logit generalized linear regression models. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Habitual short duration sleepers reported an additional $1400 in total unadjusted health care expenditures compared to people with average sleep duration (P<0.01). After adjusting for demographics, socioeconomic factors, and health behavior factors, this difference remained significant with an additional $1278 in total health care expenditures over average duration sleepers (P<0.05). Long duration sleepers reported even higher, $2994 additional health care expenditures over average duration sleepers. This difference in health care expenditures remained significantly high ($1500, P<0.01) in the adjusted model. Expenditure differences are more pronounced for inpatient hospitalization, office expenses, prescription expenses, and home health care expenditures. CONCLUSIONS: Habitual short and long sleep duration is associated with higher health care expenditures, which is consistent with the association between unhealthy sleep duration and poorer health outcomes.
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