Abstract
Objective
To assess the relationship between frequency of cannabis use and sleep duration across
age in a large US population (235,667 people).
Methods
Multinomial logistic regression was used to evaluate the association between the frequency
of cannabis use and sleep duration using cross sectional data from the 2016-2018 Behavioral
Risk Factor Surveillance System.
Results
When adjusted for sociodemographic factors, health related variables, and stratified
by age we found that young adults (18-44 years) who reported daily-use (≥16 uses a
month) had an increased risk ratio (RR [95% CI]) for either short or long sleep (1.22
[1.06-1.40] and 1.52 [1.07-2.16]); midlife adults (45-64 years) who reported daily-use
had an increased prevalence of long sleep (1.71 [1.03-2.82]); and older adults (≥65
years) who reported daily-use had an increased prevalence of short sleep (1.61 [1.05-2.49]).
Conclusions
Compared to those who reported no cannabis use, individuals who reported daily cannabis
use demonstrated a greater prevalence for either short or long sleep duration.
Keywords
To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
Purchase one-time access:
Academic & Personal: 24 hour online accessCorporate R&D Professionals: 24 hour online accessOne-time access price info
- For academic or personal research use, select 'Academic and Personal'
- For corporate R&D use, select 'Corporate R&D Professionals'
Subscribe:
Subscribe to Sleep Health: Journal of the National Sleep FoundationAlready a print subscriber? Claim online access
Already an online subscriber? Sign in
Register: Create an account
Institutional Access: Sign in to ScienceDirect
References
- Cannabis use and sleep: expectations, outcomes, and the role of age.Addict Behav. 2021; 112106642https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106642
- Decreasing perceived risk associated with regular cannabis use among older adults in the United States from 2015 to 2019.J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021; 69: 2591-2597
- Perceived risk of harm from monthly cannabis use among US adolescents: National Survey on drug Use and Health, 2017.Prev Med Rep. 2021; 23101436https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101436
- Trends and correlates of marijuana use among late middle-aged and older adults in the United States, 2002–2014.Drug Alcohol Depend. 2017; 171: 97-106
- Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2020. Volume II. Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor2021 (College Students & Adults Ages 19-60)
- Cannabis use patterns and motives: a comparison of younger, middle-aged, and older medical cannabis dispensary patients.Addict Behav. 2017; 72: 14-20https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.03.006
- Sleep and its disorders in aging populations.Sleep Med. 2009; 10 (PubMed PMID: 19647483): S7-11https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2009.07.004
- Efficacy and safety of medical cannabinoids in older subjects: a systematic review.Ageing Res Rev. 2014; 14 (PubMed PMID: 24509411): 56-64https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2014.01.007
- Recommended amount of sleep for a healthy adult: a joint consensus statement of the american academy of sleep medicine and sleep research society.Sleep. 2015; 38 (PubMed PMID: 26039963; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4434546): 843-844https://doi.org/10.5665/sleep.4716
- Recent cannabis use and nightly sleep duration in adults: a population analysis of the NHANES from 2005 to 2018.Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2022; 47: 100-104
- Trends in Cannabis use among older adults in the United States, 2015-2018.JAMA Intern Med. 2020; 180: 609-611https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.7517
- Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia.Nature Communications. 2021; 12: 1-10
- Medical cannabis use: exploring the perceptions and experiences of older adults with chronic conditions.Clin Gerontol. 2021; 44: 32-41
- Sleep patterns and insomnia in a large population-based study of middle-aged and older adults: the Tromsø study 2015-2016.J Sleep Res. 2021; 30 (Epub 20200529. PubMed PMID: 32469116): e13095https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13095
- Cannabinoid therapies in the management of sleep disorders: a systematic review of preclinical and clinical studies.Sleep Med Rev. 2020; 53101339https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2020.101339
- Sleep Disturbance, sleep duration, and inflammation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies and experimental sleep deprivation.Biol Psychiatry. 2016; 80: 40-52https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.05.014
- Self-reported sleep duration and quality and cardiovascular disease and mortality: a dose-response meta-analysis.J Am Heart Assoc. 2018; 7e008552https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.118.008552
- Association of sleep duration with all-cause and disease-specific mortality in US adults.J Epidemiol Community Health. 2021; 75: 556-561
- Sleep duration predicts cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.Eur Heart J. 2011; 32: 1484-1492
- Marijuana use patterns and sleep among community-based young adults.J Addict Dis. 2016; 35 (Epub 20160104. PubMed PMID: 26727193; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4911998): 135-143https://doi.org/10.1080/10550887.2015.1132986
- Cannabinoids in the treatment of insomnia disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.CNS drugs. 2020; 34: 1217-1228
- Cannabis, cannabinoids, and sleep: a review of the literature.Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2017; 19: 23https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-017-0775-9
- Recent legalization of cannabis use: effects on sleep, health, and workplace safety.Nat Sci Sleep. 2017; 9: 249
- Insufficient and excessive amounts of sleep increase the risk of premature death from cardiovascular and other diseases: the multiethnic cohort study.Prev Med. 2013; 57 (PubMed PMID: 23811525; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3947517): 377-385https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.06.017
Article info
Publication history
Published online: November 17, 2022
Accepted:
October 14,
2022
Received in revised form:
September 29,
2022
Received:
June 16,
2022
Publication stage
In Press Corrected ProofIdentification
Copyright
© 2022 National Sleep Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
