Subsequent Hypertension’s Mediation of the Association Between Sleep Duration Trajectories and New-Onset Cardiovascular Disease: Population-Based Cohort Study

Hongwei Liu   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Minghui Wu   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Minheng Zhang   ² , MD ;   Jian Pan   ³ , MD ;   Haiyan Wu   ⁴ , MD ;   Haixia Fan   ⁴ , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Neurology, Taiyuan City Central Hospital, taiyuan, China

² Department of Gerontology, The First People's Hospital of Jinzhong, Jinzhong, China

³ Department of Anesthesiology, Shenzhen People's Hospital Longhua Branch, ShenZhen, China

⁴ Department of Sleep Center, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

*these authors contributed equally