Afternoon Napping and Cognition in Chinese Older Adults: Findings from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study Baseline Assessment

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 373-380

  Li, Junxin ^a,b   Cacchione, Pamela Z ^b   Hodgson, Nancy ^b   Riegel, Barbara ^b   Keenan, Brendan T ^a   Scharf, Mathew T ^a   Richards, Kathy C ^c   Gooneratne, Nalaka S ^a,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; older adults; postlunch napping; sleep duration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; BODY MASS; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HABIT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; RETIREMENT; SLEEP TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP; TIME FACTOR;

AGED; CHINA; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85007258934     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14368     Document Type: Article

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