Depression and low socioeconomic status are strong candidates for producing the statistical association between long sleep and mortality, either as confounders or as causal intermediates. Future causal research on the effects of long sleep should include a detailed assessment of psychiatric disease and socioeconomic status.
Maxime M. Bos, Diana van Heemst, Esther Donga, Renée de Mutsert, Frits R. Rosendaal, Gerard J. Blauw, Patrick C.N. Rensen, Nienke R. Biermasz, Raymond Noordam
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