Healthy older adults' sleep predicts all-cause mortality at 4 to 19 years of follow-up

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-73

  Dew, Mary Amanda ^a,b   Hoch, Carolyn C ^a   Buysse, Daniel J ^a   Monk, Timothy H ^a   Begley, Amy E ^a   Houck, Patricia R ^a   Hall, Martica ^a   Kupfer, David J ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Gerontology; Mortality; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP DISORDERS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037250910     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PSY.0000039756.23250.7C     Document Type: Article

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