Marital Happiness and Sleep Disturbances in a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Middle-Aged Women

RACIAL/ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN SLEEP DISTURBANCES Racial/Ethnic Differences in Sleep Disturbances: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

877 Race/Ethnicity and Sleep Disturbances in US Adults—Chen et al. INTRODUCTION The prevalence of sleep disordered breathing (SDB), short sleep duration, and insomnia has increased substantially over the past two decades.1,2 Epidemiologic studies have linked sleep disturbances to adverse health outcomes including obesity,3 hypertension,3 cardiovascular disease (CVD),3,4 premature mortality,5,6 ...

Chronic exposure to everyday discrimination and sleep in a multiethnic sample of middle-aged women.

OBJECTIVE Researchers have suggested that poor sleep may play a role in the association between discrimination and health, but studies linking experiences of discrimination to sleep are limited. The authors examined associations between reports of everyday discrimination over 4 years (chronic everyday discrimination) and subjective and objective indicators of poor sleep. METHOD Participants w...

Relationship between trait-anger and sleep disturbances in middle-aged men and women.

OBJECTIVE The present study was performed to determine whether high levels of trait-anger (T-Anger) are independently associated with sleep disturbances and quantitative and qualitative measurements of sleep in middle-aged adults. METHODS Enrolled in the study were 2404 men and 2291 women derived from the Korean Health and Genome Study (KHGS), which is an ongoing population-based prospective ...

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Sleep Disturbances: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

OBJECTIVES There is limited research on racial/ethnic variation in sleep disturbances. This study aimed to quantify the distributions of objectively measured sleep disordered breathing (SDB), short sleep duration, poor sleep quality, and self-reported sleep disturbances (e.g., insomnia) across racial/ethnic groups. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Six US communities. PARTICIPANTS Rac...

Marital happiness