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Sleep Disturbances and Mortality: Results from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging by Kenneth Rockwood; Heather S. Davis; Heather R. Merry; Chris MacKnight; Ian McDowell is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sleep Disturbances and Mortality: Results from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging about?
## Objectives: To cross-validate, in a secondary analysis, the observation that daytime sleepiness is associated with an increased risk of death. ## Design: Prospective cohort study. ## Setting: Canada, a nationally representative sample of people age 65 and older. ## Participants: Nine thousand and eight community-dwelling participants in the canadian study of health and aging. ## Exposures: Self-reported sleep disturbances. ## Outcomes: Cox hazard ratios (hrs) for death. ## Results: The unadjusted analysis showed a small increased risk of death from daytime sleepiness (hr = 1.89; 95% confidence interval (ci) = 1.44-2.46), but this finding did not persist in a multivariate model adjusted for age, depression, cognition, comorbid illness, and function. ## Conclusion: Daytime sleepiness itself is not associated with an increased risk of death when other factors are taken into account. daytime sleepiness may be a proxy for other morbid conditions and therefore for overall tiredness.
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- Author
- Kenneth Rockwood; Heather S. Davis; Heather R. Merry; Chris MacKnight; Ian McDowell
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; The American Geriatrics Society; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0002-8614)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)