Abstract
Background
The aim was to investigate the association between sleep disturbances and cognitive function in younger and older individuals from an ageing population.
Methods
3,968 male and 4,821 female white participants, aged 50 years and over, from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) were studied. Information on sleep quality and quantity as well as both amnestic (memory, ACF) and non-amnestic (non-memory, nACF) function was available at Wave 4 (2008). Analysis of covariance was used to evaluate the relationship between sleep and cognitive function.
Results
After adjustment for multiple confounders in the younger group (50–64 years) duration of sleep explained 15.2% of the variance in ACF (p = 0.003) and 20.6% of nACF (p = 0.010). In the older group (65+ years) the estimates were 21.3% (p
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e100991 |
| Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 26 Jun 2014 |
Bibliographical note
The full text is also available from the link given.MAM & FPC received funding from the The Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC) grant number ES/K002910/1(www.esrc.ac.uk).
"The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to
publish, or preparation of the manuscript."
The study is part of the Sleep, Health & Society Research Programme of The
University of Warwick.
© 2014 Miller et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
