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At SLEEP 2025, the 39th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, in Seattle, Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, presented on a study that found greater oral microbiome diversity was associated with long sleep duration in teenagers and young adults. HCPLive spoke with Narcisse at the meeting about the relationship between oral microbiome diversity and long sleep in 13,332 US teenagers and young adults aged 16 – 26 years.
In this Q&A, Narcisse shared what the association between greater oral microbiome diversity and longer sleep in teens and young adults could mean for early-life disease prevention.
At SLEEP 2025, HCPLive spoke with Narcisse about NHANES-based findings suggesting longer sleep duration is associated with richer and more diverse oral microbiomes.
by Patricia Tomasi, Theravive.com
A new study published in the Journal of Sleep looked at the associations of sleep and the oral microbiome among adolescents and young adults in the United States.
“We aimed to investigate whether different sleep durations, especially insufficient or excessive sleep, are associated with changes in the richness and evenness of oral microbial communities, a largely unexplored area in adolescent sleep health research,” study author Marie-Rachelle Narcisse told us.
Results show that compared to those with a healthy sleep duration, teenagers and young adults with a long sleep duration (3% of participants) had significantly higher oral microbiome array. The study is among the first to demonstrate this connection in adolescents, opening a new avenue of research into how the oral microbiome may be related to sleep health during this crucial developmental period.
A SLEEP 2025 study finds that long sleep duration in teens and young adults is associated with greater oral microbiome diversity.
“For more than two decades, researchers have hypothesized that the microbiome is largely overlooked as a determinant of health and disease, and growing evidence has shown that disturbances in sleep health can alter the microbiome, particularly within the gut,” says lead author Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, PhD, MSc, FABQAURP, CHCQM, an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and a research scientist at the E.P. Bradley Hospital COBRE Center for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Providence, RI, in a release.“I’m thrilled that our study highlights the potential relationship between sleep health and the oral microbiome and look forward to further exploring that connection.”
DARIEN, IL – A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2025 annual meeting found that oral microbiome diversity is positively associated with long sleep duration among teenagers and young adults.