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睡眠剥夺作为多系统生理应激源:共享机制与临床意义的综述

Sleep deprivation as a multi-system physiological stressor: A review of shared mechanisms and clinical implications.

综述
作者
Ghanem FK, Attarian H, Kabrita CS
期刊
Sleep medicine
出处
2026; 148; 109284
DOI
10.1016/j.sleep.2026.109284
PMID
42785218

一句话摘要

叙述性综述汇总睡眠不足对认知、免疫、代谢、心血管、生殖与基因组层面的后果,检验这些分散结果能否收敛到少数共享的上游机制;并把睡眠不足、碎片化、失眠、OSA 与节律错位作为不同形式的睡眠紊乱统一处理。

为什么重要

把「睡眠不足」重新框定为全身性生理应激源而非单纯的神经系统问题,为跨系统的机制整合提供框架。作者明确说明该整合属假说生成性,人体证据以观察性为主、无法排除双向因果。

英文摘要原文

Purpose Insufficient and disrupted sleep are increasingly recognized as systemic, not narrowly neurological, stressors. This narrative review synthesizes evidence on the cognitive, immune, metabolic, cardiovascular, reproductive, and genomic consequences of insufficient sleep and examines whether these seemingly diverse physiological consequences reflect a limited number of shared upstream mechanisms. Here, insufficient sleep is an overarching term for inadequate sleep duration, encompassing restriction and deprivation; fragmentation, poor sleep quality, insomnia disorder, obstructive sleep apnea, and circadian misalignment are treated as distinct but overlapping forms of disruption. Methods Structured searches of PubMed, Google Scholar, and ScienceDirect (January-August 2026) informed a SANRA-guided narrative synthesis. Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, guidelines, and large observational studies were prioritized; experimental human and preclinical animal studies illustrate mechanism. The design of each primary source is named using five prespecified evidence categories. No quantitative pooling or risk-of-bias assessment was performed. Results Three mechanisms recur: sympathetic and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis hyperactivation, low-grade systemic inflammation, and circadian and hormonal desynchronization. Evidence strength varies by system. Meta-analyses of prospective cohorts support U-shaped associations of sleep duration with type 2 diabetes, cardio-cerebrovascular disease, and all-cause mortality, with sleep regularity outperforming duration. Controlled human experiments support impaired hippocampal encoding, attenuated vaccine responses, and adverse shifts in appetite hormones and energy balance. Reproductive and genomic evidence is weaker, resting largely on rodent models and small cross-sectional human samples. Sleep duration alone shows no consistent association with cancer incidence, whereas poor sleep quality and circadian disruption are linked more consistently to cancer progression and mortality. Conclusions Sleep duration, regularity, quality, continuity, and circadian alignment exert distinguishable influences and are best treated as separate clinical targets. The mechanistic convergence described here is hypothesis-generating rather than a demonstrated causal pathway: most human evidence is observational and bidirectional causation cannot be excluded. Within these limits, the framework informs counseling, intervention design, and public health messaging.

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