TY - JOUR
T1 - Associations of Actigraphic Sleep Parameters with Fatigability in Older Adults
AU - Alfini, Alfonso J.
AU - Schrack, Jennifer A.
AU - Urbanek, Jacek K.
AU - Wanigatunga, Amal A.
AU - Wanigatunga, Sarah K.
AU - Zipunnikov, Vadim
AU - Ferrucci, Luigi
AU - Simonsick, Eleanor M.
AU - Spira, Adam P.
AU - Newman, Anne
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was financially supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, by Research and Development Contract HHSN-260-2004-00012C, and by Research Grants R21AG053198 and P30AG021334. The study proposal and subsequent data acquisition were approved by the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. A.J.A. is supported by T32-AG027668. J.A.S., A.A.W., and J.K.U. are supported by U01AG057545 and R01AG061786. V.Z. is supported by R01AG049872-01, R01AG050507, R01AG050745-01A1, and R01AG057545. A.P.S., A.A.W., S.K.B., and J.K.U. are supported by AG050507. A.P.S. is also supported by AG049872 and U01AG057545.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America 2020.
PY - 2020/6/5
Y1 - 2020/6/5
N2 - Background: Poor sleep may increase the likelihood of fatigue, and both are common in later life. However, prior studies of the sleep-fatigue relationship used subjective measures or were conducted in clinical populations; thus, the nature of this association in healthier community-dwelling older adults remains unclear. We studied the association of actigraphic sleep parameters with perceived fatigability - fatigue in response to a standardized task - and with conventional fatigue symptoms of low energy or tiredness. Methods: We studied 382 cognitively normal participants in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (aged 73.1 ± 10.3 years, 53.1% women) who completed 6.7 ± 0.9 days of wrist actigraphy and a perceived fatigability assessment, including rating of perceived exertion (RPE) after a 5-minute treadmill walk or the Pittsburgh Fatigability Scale (PFS). Participants also reported non-standardized symptoms of fatigue. Results: After adjustment for age, sex, race, height, weight, comorbidity index, and depressive symptoms, shorter total sleep time (TST; <6.3 hours vs intermediate TST =6.3 to 7.2 hours) was associated with high RPE fatigability (odds ratio [OR] = 2.56, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.29, 5.06, p =. 007), high PFS physical (OR = 1.88, 95% CI = 1.04, 3.38, p =. 035), and high mental fatigability (OR = 2.15, 95% CI = 1.02, 4.50, p =. 044), whereas longer TST was also associated with high mental fatigability (OR = 2.19, 95% CI = 1.02, 4.71, p =. 043). Additionally, longer wake bout length was associated with high RPE fatigability (OR = 1.53, 95% CI = 1.14, 2.07, p =. 005), and greater wake after sleep onset was associated with high mental fatigability (OR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.01, 1.28, p =. 036). Conclusion: Among well-functioning older adults, abnormal sleep duration and sleep fragmentation are associated with greater perceived fatigability.
AB - Background: Poor sleep may increase the likelihood of fatigue, and both are common in later life. However, prior studies of the sleep-fatigue relationship used subjective measures or were conducted in clinical populations; thus, the nature of this association in healthier community-dwelling older adults remains unclear. We studied the association of actigraphic sleep parameters with perceived fatigability - fatigue in response to a standardized task - and with conventional fatigue symptoms of low energy or tiredness. Methods: We studied 382 cognitively normal participants in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (aged 73.1 ± 10.3 years, 53.1% women) who completed 6.7 ± 0.9 days of wrist actigraphy and a perceived fatigability assessment, including rating of perceived exertion (RPE) after a 5-minute treadmill walk or the Pittsburgh Fatigability Scale (PFS). Participants also reported non-standardized symptoms of fatigue. Results: After adjustment for age, sex, race, height, weight, comorbidity index, and depressive symptoms, shorter total sleep time (TST; <6.3 hours vs intermediate TST =6.3 to 7.2 hours) was associated with high RPE fatigability (odds ratio [OR] = 2.56, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.29, 5.06, p =. 007), high PFS physical (OR = 1.88, 95% CI = 1.04, 3.38, p =. 035), and high mental fatigability (OR = 2.15, 95% CI = 1.02, 4.50, p =. 044), whereas longer TST was also associated with high mental fatigability (OR = 2.19, 95% CI = 1.02, 4.71, p =. 043). Additionally, longer wake bout length was associated with high RPE fatigability (OR = 1.53, 95% CI = 1.14, 2.07, p =. 005), and greater wake after sleep onset was associated with high mental fatigability (OR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.01, 1.28, p =. 036). Conclusion: Among well-functioning older adults, abnormal sleep duration and sleep fragmentation are associated with greater perceived fatigability.
KW - Actigraphy
KW - Fatigability
KW - Fatigue
KW - Sleep
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U2 - 10.1093/gerona/glaa137
DO - 10.1093/gerona/glaa137
M3 - Article
C2 - 32502253
AN - SCOPUS:85091192174
SN - 1079-5006
VL - 75
SP - e95-e102
JO - Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
JF - Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
IS - 9
ER -