Reported sleep duration reveals segmentation of the adult life-course into three phases

Coutrot, A., Lazar, A. S., Richards, M., Manley, E., Wiener, J. M., Dalton, R. C., Hornberger, M. and Spiers, H. J. (2022) Reported sleep duration reveals segmentation of the adult life-course into three phases. Nature Communications, 13. ISSN 2041-1723

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Abstract

Classically the human life-course is characterized by youth, middle age and old age. A wide range of biological, health and cognitive functions vary across this life-course. Here, using reported sleep duration from 730,187 participants across 63 countries, we find three distinct phases in the adult human life-course: early adulthood (19-33yrs), mid-adulthood (34-53yrs), and late adulthood (54+yrs). They appear stable across culture, gender, education and other demographics. During the third phase, where self-reported sleep duration increases with age, cognitive performance, as measured by spatial navigation, was found to have an inverted u-shape relationship with reported sleep duration: optimal performance peaks at 7 hours reported sleep. World-wide self-reported sleep duration patterns are geographically clustered, and are associated with economy, culture, and latitude.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank Deutsche Telekom for supporting and funding this research and Alzheimer Research UK (ARUK-DT2016-1-HS MH) for funding the analysis, the Glitchers Limited for the design and game production.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	general,physics and astronomy(all),chemistry(all),biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology(all),sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1000
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Dementia & Complexity in Later Life Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Norwich Institute for Healthy Aging Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Mental Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	14 Dec 2022 16:30
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2025 11:10
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90008
DOI:	10.1038/s41467-022-34624-8

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