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Do sleep timing and duration affect dementia risk? (>8 hrs = 69% higher risk)
Medical Xpress / Wiley / Journal of the American Geriatrics Society ^ | Sept. 21, 2022 | Rui Liu MD et al

Posted on 09/22/2022 6:44:39 AM PDT by ConservativeMind

New research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggests that the time people go to bed and the amount of time they sleep may affect their risk of developing dementia.

In the study of 1,982 older adults in China who were free of dementia at the start of the study, 97 participants were diagnosed with dementia during an average follow-up of 3.7 years.

Risk of dementia was 69% higher in those who slept for more than 8 hours (versus 7-8 hours) and 2-times higher for those who went to bed before 9 PM (versus 10 PM or later).

"This suggests that cognitive function should be monitored in older adults who report prolonged time in bed and advanced sleep timing," the authors wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cognitive; dementia
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This is sleep time devoid of other obvious sickness or injury.
1 posted on 09/22/2022 6:44:39 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 09/22/2022 6:45:16 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Wow, completely counter-intuitive. A health group I’ve been a member of has pushed 9-10 hours of sleep as the goal.


3 posted on 09/22/2022 6:50:19 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: ConservativeMind

I read this story and immediately felt like taking a nap.


4 posted on 09/22/2022 6:52:12 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: ConservativeMind

Early to bed and early to rise...uhhhh, you know, the thing.


5 posted on 09/22/2022 6:57:21 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fox News is CNN-Lite.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I wonder if those who went to sleep earlier and slept longer did so because they were generally less busy and involved in things.


6 posted on 09/22/2022 7:03:34 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ConservativeMind

I average 6.5 hours of sleep a night, dementia has been setting in for years....


7 posted on 09/22/2022 7:19:21 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: ConservativeMind

I go to sleep around midnight and sleep less than 5 hours, so I guess I’m set.


8 posted on 09/22/2022 7:21:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: ConservativeMind

Dumb people shouldn’t publish. They might as well as say those who drink water die.


9 posted on 09/22/2022 7:21:59 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: fwdude

Life’s too short to spend that much time in bed.


10 posted on 09/22/2022 7:26:26 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: ConservativeMind

But if you get less than 7 hours sleep, you run a higher risk of Stress granules which has been correlated with prostrate cancer.

Trying to get the optimum number of sleep hours could keep you up at night.


11 posted on 09/22/2022 7:31:41 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ConservativeMind

Check for sleep apnea. The apnea intrupts sleep because you stop breathing and makes you sleep longer. On top of that your blood O2 drops way down which accelerates dementia.


12 posted on 09/22/2022 7:34:49 AM PDT by mistfree (Fear Destroys Freedom)
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To: DannyTN

Prostrate cancer . . . hey, that’s what I’ve got!


13 posted on 09/22/2022 7:35:30 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: ConservativeMind

I’d be lucky to get a full 7 in... Even if I go out on a Saturday night and get plowed, I’m still up by 4;30 or 5AM that Sunday morning... It’s a curse!!


14 posted on 09/22/2022 7:38:47 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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There was a thread yesterday about stress granules. Title:

"Stress granules may drive obesity-associated pancreatic cancer (Removing obesity “stress granules” cured 40% of pancreatic cancers)"

15 posted on 09/22/2022 7:39:35 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ConservativeMind

This seems like an:

“eggs are bad / no wait....eggs are good / actually... it turns out they are bad / hold on....”

type of scenario.


16 posted on 09/22/2022 7:42:01 AM PDT by nitzy
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To: nitzy

Keeps the money flowing. “We need to do more research!”


17 posted on 09/22/2022 7:43:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ConservativeMind
Correlation is not causation. They are not claiming that longer sleep causes dementia. It's more likely that a symptom of the earliest stages of dementia is longer sleeping.
18 posted on 09/22/2022 7:51:15 AM PDT by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

> I wonder if those who went to sleep earlier and slept longer did so because they were generally less busy and involved in things.

Really. Life is for living, there’s too many things to do to sleep one’s life away. Me, I generally rotate around about 7 or so hours.


19 posted on 09/22/2022 7:56:29 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: ConservativeMind

Good news for me…to bed at 11 pm and rarely make it past 6 or 6-1/2 hours.


20 posted on 09/22/2022 8:05:48 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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