ArticleEthnicity & disease2016
Self-Reported Sleep in Older African Americans and White Americans.
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- Indicators and Instruments to Assess Components of Disability in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual differences in naturalistic sleep quality and episodic memory performance in young and older adults.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
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- Sleep trajectories across three cognitive-aging pathways in community older adults.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Chronic stress exposure, social support, and sleep quality among African Americans: findings from the National Survey of American Life-Reinterview.Ethnicity & health · 2024Article
- Multimodal lifestyle engagement patterns support cognitive stability beyond neuropathological burden.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2023Article
- Race and sex differences in the longitudinal changes in multidimensional self-reported sleep health characteristics in aging older adults.Sleep health · 2023Article
- Factors that protect against poor sleep quality in an adult lifespan sample of non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White adults during COVID-19: A cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Insomnia Symptoms among African-American Older Adults in Economically Disadvantaged Areas of South Los Angeles.Brain sciences · 2019Article
- Age and Race-Related Differences in Sleep Discontinuity Linked to Associative Memory Performance and Its Neural Underpinnings.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Genetic Ancestry for Sleep Research: Leveraging Health Inequalities to Identify Causal Genetic Variants.Chest · 2018Review
- Chronic intermittent hypoxia induces hormonal and male sexual behavioral changes: Hypoxia as an advancer of aging.Physiology & behavior · 2018Article
- Religious Orders Study and Rush Memory and Aging Project.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2018Review
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Abstract
objectiveAssess the relationship of self-reported sleep quality and possible sleep disorders with disability in a racially diverse sample of community-dwelling older adults.
methodsParticipants included 943 non-demented older African Americans (n=452) and Whites (n=491) from two cohort studies, the Minority Aging Research Study (MARS) and the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP). Participants completed a 32-item questionnaire assessing sleep quality and the possible presence of three sleep disorders (sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome [RLS] and REM behavior disorder [RBD]). Disability was assessed with scales that quantified the ability to perform instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), basic activities of daily living (ADL), and physical mobility activities.
resultsMore than half of the participants reported impaired sleep quality (51%), or the possible presence of at least one sleep disorder (57%; sleep apnea 44%, RLS 25% and RBD 7%). Sleep quality was rated poorer in African Americans, those with advancing age and fewer years of education (all P<.05). Only sleep apnea risk was associated with age (P<.02). In logistic regression models adjusted for age, sex, years of education, and race, both sleep quality and disorders were associated with disability (sleep quality with mobility disability (P<.001), sleep apnea risk with mobility disability and IADL disability (all P<.001) and RLS symptoms with mobility disability (P<.01).
conclusionsResults indicate that self-assessed impaired sleep is common in old age and is associated with disability.
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