Washington,A new study has revealed that there is an association between midlife and later life sleeping habits with memory and extreme sleep durations can worsen memory in later life.
The study led by Brigham and
Women’s Hospital (BWH) found that women who slept five or fewer hours, or nine
or more hours per day, either in midlife or later life, had worse memory,
equivalent to nearly two additional years of age, than those sleeping seven
hours per day.It has also been revealed that women whose sleep duration changed
by greater than two hours per day over time had worse memory than women with no
change in sleep duration.
Elizabeth Devore, ScD, instructor
in medicine in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH, said that
given the importance of preserving memory into later life, it is critical to
identify modifiable factors, such as sleeping habits, that may help achieve
this goal and their findings suggest that getting an ‘average’ amount of sleep,
seven hours per day, may help maintain memory in later life and that clinical
interventions based on sleep therapy should be examined for the prevention of
cognitive impairment.
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