SynthesisSleep medicine reviews2016
Risk factors for sleep disturbances in older adults: Evidence from prospective studies.
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147 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 341 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effects of Exercise on Sleep Quality and Insomnia in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Smoking and risk of sleep-related issues: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2020Pooled it
- Association between periodontal disease and non-apnea sleep disorder: a systematic review.Clinical oral investigations · 2020Pooled it
- Sleep and frailty risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2020Pooled it
- Loneliness, social isolation, cardiovascular disease and mortality: a synthesis of the literature and conceptual framework.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2020Pooled it
- A systematic review of non-pharmacological interventions to improve nighttime sleep among residents of long-term care settings.BMC geriatrics · 2018Pooled it
- Sleep and Healthy Aging: A Systematic Review and Path Forward.Clinical gerontologistPooled it
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- Measuring Sleep in Vulnerable Older Adults: A Comparison of Subjective and Objective Sleep Measures.Clinical gerontologistTrial
- The association between chronic back problems and poor sleep quality among Ontarian adults aged 60 years and older: A cross-sectional study analyzing the Canadian Community Health Survey 2015-2016.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026Article
- Sleep Difficulties and Their Associations With Smoking Abstinence Among Adults Seeking Tobacco Cessation Treatment.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- The role of sleep disorders in the motoric and cognitive trajectories of older physically frail sarcopenic and healthy active subjects: SOMNUS-DARE, a prospective cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Hearing impairment and depression in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: the potential intermediary role of sleep duration in the CHARLS cohort.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Bidirectional causal association between frailty and six psychiatric disorders.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Phenotypes of patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis presenting for nonoperative care: baseline data from the Lumbar Stenosis Prognostic Subgroups for Personalizing Care and Treatment Study (PROSPECTS).Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Network analysis of anxiety, depression and insomnia in the elderly in Jiangsu Province.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Integrative sleep management: from molecular pathways to conventional and herbal treatments.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Review
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Abstract
No systematic review of epidemiological evidence has examined risk factors for sleep disturbances among older adults. We searched the PubMed database combining search terms targeting the following domains 1) prospective, 2) sleep, and 3) aging, and identified 21 relevant population-based studies with prospective sleep outcome data. Only two studies utilized objective measures of sleep disturbance, while six used the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) and thirteen used insomnia symptoms or other sleep complaints as the outcome measure. Female gender, depressed mood, and physical illness were most consistently identified as risks for future sleep disturbances. Less robust evidence implicated the following as potentially relevant predictors: lower physical activity levels, African-American race, lower economic status, previous manual occupation, widowhood, marital quality, loneliness and perceived stress, preclinical dementia, long-term benzodiazepine and sedative use, low testosterone levels, and inflammatory markers. Chronological age was not identified as a consistent, independent predictor of future sleep disturbances. In conclusion, prospective studies have identified female gender, depressed mood, and physical illness as general risk factors for future sleep disturbances in later life, although specific physiological pathways have not yet been established. Research is needed to determine the precise mechanisms through which these factors influence sleep over time.
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