Insomnia in an 80-year-old population: relationship to medical, psychological and social factors
(1998) In Journal of Sleep Research 7(3). p.183-189- Abstract
- In this study, insomnia in 80-year-olds was related to medical, psychological and social factors. The data were based on examinations every year in people aged between 80 and 89 years. Of 333 people living in the city of Lund and born in 1908, 67% participated. Increased severity of insomnia was significantly associated with use of diuretics, other cardiovascular drugs, hypnotics and laxatives, and with nervousness, difficulty relaxing, anorexia, nausea, constipation, backache, feeling cold, sweating, loss of weight, dizziness, depression, general fatigue, exhaustion, angina pectoris, cardiac insufficiency, worsened objective and subjective health, presence of negative T-waves on ECG, anxiety, total life satisfaction, neuroticism,... (More)
- In this study, insomnia in 80-year-olds was related to medical, psychological and social factors. The data were based on examinations every year in people aged between 80 and 89 years. Of 333 people living in the city of Lund and born in 1908, 67% participated. Increased severity of insomnia was significantly associated with use of diuretics, other cardiovascular drugs, hypnotics and laxatives, and with nervousness, difficulty relaxing, anorexia, nausea, constipation, backache, feeling cold, sweating, loss of weight, dizziness, depression, general fatigue, exhaustion, angina pectoris, cardiac insufficiency, worsened objective and subjective health, presence of negative T-waves on ECG, anxiety, total life satisfaction, neuroticism, disbelief in a just world, feeling lonely and lower survival rates. Thus insomnia has widespread associations with different aspects of life in 80-year-olds. (Less)
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- Jensen, Elmo ; Dehlin, Ove LU ; Hagberg, Bo LU ; Samuelsson, Gillis LU and Svensson, Torbjörn LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 1998
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- aged, depression, insomnia, psychology, quality of life, sociology, survival
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- Journal of Sleep Research
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 183 - 189
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
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- pmid:9785273
- scopus:0031715750
- ISSN
- 1365-2869
- DOI
- 10.1046/j.1365-2869.1998.00118.x
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Division of Geriatric Medicine (013040040), Department of Psychology (012010000), Division of Occupational Therapy (Closed 2012) (013025000)
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