Gender Differences in Sleep Disturbance among Elderly Koreans: Hallym Aging Study

Sleep is an important component in our lives as it is necessary throughout one’s entire life span. This study was conducted to elucidate whether there are gender differences in sleep quality and what factors can affect sleep quality in community-dwelling elderly Koreans. A total of 382 subjects (175...

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Main Authors:	Quan, Shan-Ai, Li, Yong-Chun, Li, Wen-Jie, Li, Yan, Jeong, Jin-Young, Kim, Dong-Hyun
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056198/

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spelling	pubmed-50561982016-11-01 Gender Differences in Sleep Disturbance among Elderly Koreans: Hallym Aging Study Quan, Shan-Ai Li, Yong-Chun Li, Wen-Jie Li, Yan Jeong, Jin-Young Kim, Dong-Hyun Original Article Sleep is an important component in our lives as it is necessary throughout one’s entire life span. This study was conducted to elucidate whether there are gender differences in sleep quality and what factors can affect sleep quality in community-dwelling elderly Koreans. A total of 382 subjects (175 males and 207 females) were recruited among elderly aged 45 or over who participated in the 2010 Hallym Aging Study (HAS). They were invited to a general hospital and were evaluated for socioeconomic status, smoking history, and various clinical measures. Sleep quality was assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). A higher score indicates poorer subjective sleep quality, (PSQI global score > 5 suggests sleep disturbance). After adjusting for potential covariates, our results show that alcohol increases the odds for poor sleep (odds ratio [OR] = 3.35, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.11–10.10) in males. In females, lack of exercise was the major risk factor of poor sleep as they are 4.46 times more likely to suffer from low sleep quality than those who exercise regularly (95% CI=1.56–13.75). Stress was also a risk factor for poor sleep. It was 5.60 times higher in the “always have stress” group than the “do not have stress” group (95% CI = 1.54–20.34). Thus, alcohol consumption is associated with men’s sleep quality, while exercise and stress level affect women’s. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2016-11 2016-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5056198/ /pubmed/27709844 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2016.31.11.1689 Text en © 2016 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Quan, Shan-Ai Li, Yong-Chun Li, Wen-Jie Li, Yan Jeong, Jin-Young Kim, Dong-Hyun
spellingShingle	Quan, Shan-Ai Li, Yong-Chun Li, Wen-Jie Li, Yan Jeong, Jin-Young Kim, Dong-Hyun Gender Differences in Sleep Disturbance among Elderly Koreans: Hallym Aging Study
author_facet	Quan, Shan-Ai Li, Yong-Chun Li, Wen-Jie Li, Yan Jeong, Jin-Young Kim, Dong-Hyun
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title	Gender Differences in Sleep Disturbance among Elderly Koreans: Hallym Aging Study
title_short	Gender Differences in Sleep Disturbance among Elderly Koreans: Hallym Aging Study
title_full	Gender Differences in Sleep Disturbance among Elderly Koreans: Hallym Aging Study
title_fullStr	Gender Differences in Sleep Disturbance among Elderly Koreans: Hallym Aging Study
title_full_unstemmed	Gender Differences in Sleep Disturbance among Elderly Koreans: Hallym Aging Study
title_sort	gender differences in sleep disturbance among elderly koreans: hallym aging study
description	Sleep is an important component in our lives as it is necessary throughout one’s entire life span. This study was conducted to elucidate whether there are gender differences in sleep quality and what factors can affect sleep quality in community-dwelling elderly Koreans. A total of 382 subjects (175 males and 207 females) were recruited among elderly aged 45 or over who participated in the 2010 Hallym Aging Study (HAS). They were invited to a general hospital and were evaluated for socioeconomic status, smoking history, and various clinical measures. Sleep quality was assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). A higher score indicates poorer subjective sleep quality, (PSQI global score > 5 suggests sleep disturbance). After adjusting for potential covariates, our results show that alcohol increases the odds for poor sleep (odds ratio [OR] = 3.35, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.11–10.10) in males. In females, lack of exercise was the major risk factor of poor sleep as they are 4.46 times more likely to suffer from low sleep quality than those who exercise regularly (95% CI=1.56–13.75). Stress was also a risk factor for poor sleep. It was 5.60 times higher in the “always have stress” group than the “do not have stress” group (95% CI = 1.54–20.34). Thus, alcohol consumption is associated with men’s sleep quality, while exercise and stress level affect women’s.
publisher	The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences
publishDate	2016
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056198/
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Gender Differences in Sleep Disturbance among Elderly Koreans: Hallym Aging Study

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