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March 14, 2023; 100 (11) Research Article

Genetically Predicted Sleep Traits and Functional Outcome After Ischemic Stroke

A Mendelian Randomization Study

Zhizhong Zhang, Mengmeng Wang, View ORCID ProfileDipender Gill, Wusheng Zhu, View ORCID ProfileXinfeng Liu
First published December 20, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000206745
Zhizhong Zhang
From the Department of Neurology (Z.Z., W.Z., X.L.), Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, China; Department of Neurology (M.W.), The First People's Hospital of Changzhou, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (D.G.), School of Public Health, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
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Mengmeng Wang
From the Department of Neurology (Z.Z., W.Z., X.L.), Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, China; Department of Neurology (M.W.), The First People's Hospital of Changzhou, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (D.G.), School of Public Health, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
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Dipender Gill
From the Department of Neurology (Z.Z., W.Z., X.L.), Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, China; Department of Neurology (M.W.), The First People's Hospital of Changzhou, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (D.G.), School of Public Health, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
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Wusheng Zhu
From the Department of Neurology (Z.Z., W.Z., X.L.), Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, China; Department of Neurology (M.W.), The First People's Hospital of Changzhou, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (D.G.), School of Public Health, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
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From the Department of Neurology (Z.Z., W.Z., X.L.), Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, China; Department of Neurology (M.W.), The First People's Hospital of Changzhou, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (D.G.), School of Public Health, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
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Genetically Predicted Sleep Traits and Functional Outcome After Ischemic Stroke
A Mendelian Randomization Study
Zhizhong Zhang, Mengmeng Wang, Dipender Gill, Wusheng Zhu, Xinfeng Liu
Neurology Mar 2023, 100 (11) e1159-e1165; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000206745

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Background and Objectives Sleep traits can have implications for ischemic stroke recovery in observational studies. The purpose of our present study was to explore the relationship between genetically predicted sleep traits and poststroke functional outcomes with Mendelian randomization (MR) method.

Methods Instrumental variables for insomnia and sleep duration were adopted from genome-wide association studies data of European ancestry individuals. Summary data for functional outcome after ischemic stroke were retrieved from the Genetics of Ischemic Stroke Functional Outcome network. Inverse-variance weighted approach was adopted as the main analyses. Alternative MR approaches were used in sensitivity analyses. I2 and Q value statistics were used to appraise the heterogeneity among genetic variants.

Results In univariable analysis, genetic liability to insomnia was significantly associated with worse functional outcome (modified Rankin Scale ≥3) after ischemic stroke (odds ratio [OR] = 1.30; 95% CI: 1.10–1.54, p = 0.002). Genetic liability to short sleep, long sleep, and continuous sleep duration were not associated with poststroke functional outcome (all p > 0.05). Sensitivity analyses without adjustment for stroke severity also supported that insomnia was causally associated with poor functional outcome (OR = 1.25; 95% CI: 1.08–1.44, p = 0.003). In the multivariable MR analysis adjusting for potentially confounding traits including body mass index, depression, type 2 diabetes, smoking, and alcohol consumption, the overall patterns between genetic liability to insomnia and poststroke outcome remained (all p < 0.05).

Discussion This MR study supports potential adverse effects of liability to insomnia on functional outcome after ischemic stroke. Interventions that address insomnia may offer a therapeutic target to improve recovery after ischemic stroke and warrant exploration in a clinical context.

Glossary

BMI=
body mass index;
GISCOME=
Genetics of Ischemic Stroke Functional Outcome;
IVW=
inverse-variance weighted;
MR=
Mendelian randomization;
mRS=
modified Rankin Scale;
NIHSS=
NIH Stroke Scale;
OR=
odds ratio;
SNPs=
single nucleotide polymorphisms;
T2D=
type 2 diabetes;
UKB=
UK Biobank

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  • Submitted and externally peer reviewed. The handling editor was Editor-in-Chief José Merino, MD, MPhil, FAAN.

  • Received August 18, 2022.
  • Accepted in final form November 15, 2022.
  • © 2022 American Academy of Neurology
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