Associations between sleep and cognitive performance in a racially/ethnically diverse cohort: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation

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Study Objectives: To determine whether actigraphy-Assessed indices of sleep are associated with cognitive performance in women, and explore whether these associations vary by race/ethnicity. Methods: Participants were 1,126 postmenopausal community-dwelling females (mean age 65 years) from the observational Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN); 25% were black, 46% white, 13% Chinese, 11% Japanese, and 5% Hispanic. Actigraphy-Assessed sleep measures included total sleep time, wake after sleep onset (WASO), and fragmentation. Cognitive measures included immediate and delayed verbal memory, working memory, and information processing speed. All measures were assessed in conjunction with SWAN annual visit 15. Results: Across the sample, after covariate adjustment, greater WASO and fragmentation were concurrently associated with slower information processing speed. Black participants had significantly worse sleep relative to other race/ethnic groups. Significant race/sleep interactions were observed; in black, but not white, participants, greater fragmentation was concurrently associated with worse verbal memory and slower information processing speed, and greater WASO was concurrently associated with slower information processing speed. Sleep-cognitive performance associations were not different in Chinese and Japanese participants relative to white participants. Conclusions: Greater wakefulness and fragmentation during sleep are concurrently associated with slower information processing. Sleep continuity impacted concurrent cognitive performance in black, but not white, women. This effect may not have been detected in white women because their sleep was largely within the normal range. Future longitudinal studies in diverse samples are critical to further understand whether race/ethnicity moderates the influence of sleep on cognitive performance.

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Swanson, L. M., Hood, M. M., Hall, M. H., Kravitz, H. M., Matthews, K. A., Joffe, H., … Swanson, L. M. (2021). Associations between sleep and cognitive performance in a racially/ethnically diverse cohort: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation. Sleep, 44(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsaa182

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