Ruijia Chen, Jingxuan Wang, Annie M Pederson, Aric A Prather, Andrew K Hirst, Sarah Ackley, Emily Hokett, Kristen M George, Dan Mungas, Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, Paola Gilsanz, Sebastien Haneuse, Rachel A Whitmer, M Maria Glymour
INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of poor sleep quality and sleep apnea differs by race and ethnicity and may contribute to racial disparities in cognitive aging. We investigated whether sleep quality and sleep apnea risk were associated with cognitive function and decline and whether the associations differed by race/ethnicity. METHODS: Participants from the Kaiser Healthy Aging and Diverse Life Experiences (KHANDLE; N = 1690; mean age: 75.7 years) study, a cohort of Asian, Black, Latino, and White participants, completed a modified Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index assessing subjective sleep quality, latency, duration, disturbances, sleep medication use, and daytime dysfunction...
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