Sleep duration, sleep quality and cardiovascular disease mortality among the elderly: a population-based cohort study.
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the associations between sleep duration and mortality in the elderly by controlling for sleep quality.


METHODS
Data were collected from participants in a cohort study in Shizuoka, Japan. A total of 14,001 elderly residents (aged 65-85 years), randomly chosen from all 74 municipalities in the prefecture, completed questionnaires that evaluated sleep duration, sleep complaints, and the use of hypnotics. Participants were followed from 1999 to 2006. We analyzed 11,395 subjects to estimate the hazard ratios (HR) for mortality from all causes and cardiovascular disease (CVD).


RESULTS
With 60,252 person-years, 1004 deaths were identified. While short sleep duration and mortality were not associated, longer sleep duration was associated with higher risk of mortality in both sexes. Compared with those who slept 7 h, the multivariate HR and 95% confidence interval of CVD mortality for those who slept > or =10 h was 1.95 (1.18-3.21) and, for those who slept < or =5 h, it was 1.10 (0.62-1.93). Although no clear association was found between sleep quality and mortality, long sleep duration was associated with higher risk of CVD mortality among those with poor sleep quality.


CONCLUSIONS
Long sleep duration is associated with higher risk of CVD mortality among the elderly with poor sleep quality.
Suzuki
Etsuji
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Department of Epidemiology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
Yorifuji
Takashi
T
Ueshima
Kazumune
K
Takao
Soshi
S
Sugiyama
Masumi
M
Ohta
Toshiki
T
Ishikawa-Takata
Kazuko
K
Doi
Hiroyuki
H
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D012890:Sleep; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors