Scientific Reports • Vol 13 • No 1
Poorer sleep impairs brain health at midlife
February 2023 • Tergel Namsrai, Ananthan Ambikairajah, Nicolas Cherbuin
Abstract Sleep is an emerging risk factor for dementia but its association with brain health remains unclear. This study included UK Biobank (n = 29,545; mean age = 54.65) participants at imaging visit with sleep measures and brain scans, and a subset (n = 14,206) with cognitive measures. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to study the associations between sleep and brain health. Every additional hour of sleep above 7 h/day was associated with 0.10–0.25% lower brain volumes. In contrast, a negative…