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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundPoor sleep status as a common concern is a risk factor for many health problems among older people. China with an aging society lacks relevant nationwide data on the sleep status among older people.
Zihao Tao +5 more
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Nightly treatment of primary insomnia with prolonged release melatonin for 6 months: a randomized placebo controlled trial on age and endogenous melatonin as predictors of efficacy and safety [PDF]
, 2010 <p>Background: Melatonin is extensively used in the USA in a non-regulated manner for sleep disorders. Prolonged release melatonin (PRM) is licensed in Europe and other countries for the short term treatment of primary insomnia in patients aged 55 ...
A Brzezinski +52 more
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Chronic short sleep and neurodegeneration [PDF]
Science, 2019 Neuroscience The locus ceruleus is a brain region that is critical for optimal cognitive performance and brain health. Its neurons degenerate during mild cognitive impairment and the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Zhu et al. investigated the role of chronic sleep deprivation on the protein tau, which is found abundantly in the brain and is ...
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Blood PressureAims Explore the association between short sleep and hypertension risk in the Chinese population.Methods Data from the 2020 Chinese Psychological and Behavioural Study of the Population were utilised. Restricted cubic spline models assessed dose-response
Zheng Tian +7 more
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Postprandial sleep in short-sleeping Mexican cavefish
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative PhysiologyAbstractInteraction between sleep and feeding behaviors are critical for adaptive fitness. Diverse species suppress sleep when food is scarce to increase the time spent foraging. Post-prandial sleep, an increase in sleep time following a feeding event, has been documented in vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
Kathryn Gallman +10 more
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Short and long sleeping mutants reveal links between sleep and macroautophagy
eLife, 2021 Sleep is a conserved and essential behavior, but its mechanistic and functional underpinnings remain poorly defined. Through unbiased genetic screening in Drosophila , we discovered a novel short-sleep mutant we named argus .
Mi Shi +7 more
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The molecular mechanism of natural short sleep: A path towards understanding why we need to sleep
Brain Science Advances, 2022 Sleep constitutes a third of human life and it is increasingly recognized as important for health. Over the past several decades, numerous genes have been identified to be involved in sleep regulation in animal models, but most of these genes when ...
Liubin Zheng, Luoying Zhang
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Associations of α-linolenic acid dietary intake with very short sleep duration in adults
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 ObjectivesThis study aimed to investigate the association of α-linolenic acid (ALA; 18:3 ω-3) dietary intake with very short sleep duration (<5 h) in adults based on the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data.MethodsMultinomial ...
Qianning Liu, Qingsong Shan
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Perceptual impairment in face identification with poor sleep [PDF]
, 2016 Previous studies have shown impaired memory for faces following restricted sleep. However, it is not known whether lack of sleep impairs performance on face identification tasks that do not rely on recognition memory, despite these tasks being more ...
Beattie, Louise +4 more
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Gender-specific associations of short sleep duration with prevalent and incident hypertension : the Whitehall II Study [PDF]
, 2007 Sleep deprivation (5 hour per night) was associated with a higher risk of hypertension in middle-aged American adults but not among older individuals.
Brunner, Eric +9 more
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