WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE LINK BETWEEN SLEEP AND GAIT ON THE AGING PROCESS?
Maayan Agmon, Roy Tzemah-Shahar, Tamar Shochat · 2023
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Maayan Agmon, Roy Tzemah-Shahar, and Tamar Shochat investigate the link between sleep and walking in this two thousand twenty-three study. Falls are a major danger for older adults, and people with sleep complaints face a much higher fall risk. Most earlier work studied older adults, so this team turned to community-dwelling midlife adults instead. They recruited just over one hundred participants with an average age near fifty-nine.
Gait was measured with a dual-task walking test using a mobility lab, while sleep was tracked by a week of actigraphy plus a standard sleep quality questionnaire. The researchers found that longer sleepers walked more slowly under the dual-task condition than shorter sleepers. The result hints that sleep and gait interact well before old age.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maayan Agmon, Roy Tzemah-Shahar, Tamar Shochat |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |