Prioritizing maternal sleep: a public health strategy for preventing childhood allergic diseases

Key messageSleep disorders affect more than half of pregnancies world wide and can harm maternal health and offspring outcomes.Prioritizing maternal sleep as a public health strategy may help prevent prenatal and pediatric allergic diseases and reduce their burden.Other maternal health strategies may also reduce the burden of offspring allergic diseases, while adequate maternal sleep is associated with other offspring outcomes, underscoring its importance as a key public health strategy.