Posted on 11/22/2024 2:24:25 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Researchers have discovered that changes in sleep patterns as we age are associated with lower odds of successful aging.
In the study, researchers analyzed 3,306 participants who were free of major chronic diseases at baseline in 2011 and had reached age 60 or older by 2020. Sleep duration was assessed in 2011, 2013, and 2015 by combining nighttime sleep and daytime naps to calculate total daily sleep hours.
The researchers identified five distinct sleep duration trajectories over the nine-year period: normal-stable (26.1% of participants), long-stable (26.7%), decreasing (7.3%), increasing (13.7%), and short-stable (26.2%). Logistic regression models adjusted for factors like age, sex, marital status, education level, household expenditure, lifestyle behaviors, and body type were used to examine the association between these sleep patterns and successful aging.
Using latent class mixed models (an algorithm that allows for comparison between disparate groups), researchers decided that individuals maintaining a normal-stable sleep pattern would serve as the reference group.
Participants with increasing and short stable sleep trajectories exhibited significantly lower odds of successful aging, with adjusted odds ratios of 0.64 and 0.48, respectively. The decreasing sleep pattern also showed reduced odds (adjusted OR of 0.64), though this did not reach statistical significance. The long-stable sleep pattern did not significantly differ from the normal-stable group.
Overall, just 13.8% of the cohort met the definition of successful aging by 2020.
Routine shorter and longer sleep durations over time may be hindering successful aging by disrupting physiological and psychological well-being. The patterns found in the study align with previous research linking irregular sleep habits to adverse health outcomes.
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“ If anyone has a good idea (that works) on how to sleep at least 7 hours let me know. ”
Some random ideas.
—No screen time after a certain hour, read instead.
—melatonin
—no thinking about politics after a certain hour!
—physical activity can make you sleep later
Also, that one also died. He came back and beat death, but He died.
So far two people have not died. Enoch and Elijah.
Fair enough, ;-). I think we can count coming back as the ultimate though.
Triumphing over death, yes.
“ If anyone has a good idea (that works) on how to sleep at least 7 hours let me know. ”
Some random ideas.
—No screen time after a certain hour, read instead.
—melatonin
—no thinking about politics after a certain hour!
—physical activity can make you sleep later
My problem is not falling asleep. It is staying asleep. I am sleepy not long after dinner. No matter what time I go to bed, 3 or 4 hours later, I wake up and can’t get back to sleep. I normally sleep from approx. 9 or 10 in the evening to 1 or 1:30 a.m. I then take an hour’s nap sometime later in the day.
It’s that old “getting up in the night to pee” that is the fly in the ointment when it comes to sleep. Getting back to sleep is the issue.
A “good night’s sleep” is a good thing.
Gee, whouda thunk it?
/sarc
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