ArticleBMC geriatrics2021
Sleep duration and incident frailty: The Rural Frailty Study.
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- Sleep quality and duration and frailty in older adults: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Frailty as a mediator between sleep quality and cognitive impairment among the rural older adults: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Bidirectional causal associations between frailty measures and sleep disturbances: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Article
- Development of a Prediction Model for Combined Assessment of SII, Albumin, and Fibrinogen to Evaluate Frailty Risk in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
- Association between sleep quality, sleep duration, and physical frailty among adults aged 50 years and older in India.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Sex differences in the association between sleep duration and frailty in older adults: evidence from the KNHANES study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- The causal relationship between sleep disturbances and the risk of frailty: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study.European journal of ageing · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe association between sleep duration and frailty remains unconclusive since most of the studies have been cross-sectional. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the association between sleep duration, sleep complaints, and incident frailty.
methodsA community-based cohort study from rural areas in Mexico with 309 older adults aged 70 and over. Data from waves two and three of the Rural Frailty Study were used. We operationalized the Fried frailty phenotype to describe prevalent and incident frailty at two consecutive waves. Sleep duration was classified as: ≤ 5 h, 6 h, 7-8 h, and ≥ 9 h; and the self-reported sleep complaints as a dichotomous variable. Analyses were performed using Poison regression models.
resultsThe average age was 76.2 years and 55.3% were women; the incidence of frailty was 30.4%; 13.3% slept ≤5 h, and 38.5% ≥ 9 h. Compared with the group that slept 7-8 h, the risk of frailty at 4.4 years of follow-up was significantly higher among those who slept ≤5 h (adjusted RR 1.80, 95% CI: 1.04-3.11) and among those who slept ≥9 h (adjusted RR 1.69, 95% CI: 1.10-2.58). Sleep complaints were not associated with incident frailty (adjusted RR 1.41, 95% CI: 0.94-2.12).
conclusionsOur results show that short and long sleep duration are associated with the incidence of frailty. Studies that objectively evaluate sleep duration are needed to clarify whether meeting the recommended hours of sleep decreases frailty incidence.
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