Journal
SLEEP
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 785-791Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.5628
Keywords
cerebrovascular disease; cognition; sleep disordered breathing
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- Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation
- National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging [K99AG042483, R01AG034189, R01 AG037212, P01AG007232]
- NIH
- Groff Foundation
- Mars Inc
- Columbia University
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Study Objectives: To examine the association between markers of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and white matter hyperintensity (WMH) volume in an elderly, multiethnic, community-dwelling cohort. Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis from the Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project (WHICAP), a community-based epidemiological study of older adults. Structural magnetic resonance imaging was obtained starting in 2004; the Medical Outcomes Study-Sleep Scale (MOS-SS) was administered to participants starting in 2007. Linear regression models were used to assess the relationship between the two MOS-SS questions that measure respiratory dysfunction during sleep and quantified WMH volume among WHICAP participants with brain imaging. Results: A total of 483 older adults had both structural magnetic resonance imaging and sleep assessment. Self-reported SDB was associated with WMH. After adjusting for demographic and vascular risk factors, WMH volumes were larger in individuals with frequent snoring (beta = 2.113, P = 0.004) and among those who reported waking short of breath or with headache (beta = 1.862, P = 0.048). Conclusions: In community-dwelling older adults, self-reported measures of SDB are associated with larger WMH volumes. The cognitive effects of SDB that are increasingly being recognized may be mediated at the small vessel level.
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