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Association between sleep quality and body mass index among Chinese nonagenarians/centenarians

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We examined the individual association between body mass index (BMI) and sleep quality among the very elderly. The present study analyzed data from survey that was conducted on all residents aged 90 years or more in a district, there were 2,311,709 inhabitants in 2005. Subjects were divided into four groups according to quartile of BMI (<16.6, 16.6–18.9, 18.9–21.1, >21.1 kg/m2) and according to classification criteria of underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obesity in BMI (<18.5, 18.5–23.0, 23.0–27.5, >27.5 kg/m2), respectively. Sleep quality was measured using The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Sleep quality included quality classification and scores, sleep duration, sleep latency, and sleep efficiency. The subjects included in the statistical analysis were 216 men and 444 women. According to quartile of BMI or classification criteria of underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obesity in BMI, none of the differences in sleep quality scores, sleep latency, sleep duration, sleep efficiency percentage, and prevalence of poor sleep quality was significant among different BMI groups. The difference in BMI between subjects with good and poor sleep quality was non-significant. Unadjusted and adjusted multiple logistic regression showed that none of the BMI groups had a function of decreasing the risk for poor quality. Among longevity Chinese, there is no association between BMI and sleep quality.

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This work was supported by the Discipline Construction Foundation of Sichuan University and by grants from the Project of Science and Technology Bureau of Sichuan Province (2006Z09-006-4), the Construction Fund for Subjects of West China Hospital of Sichuan University (XK05001) and the government of SiChuan province of China (2010FZ0061). The authors thank the staff of the Department of Geriatrics Medicine, West China Hospital and Dujiangyan Hospital, and all participants (as well as their legal proxies)for their great contribution.

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  1. Department of Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Guoxuexiang 37, Chengdu, Sichuang Province, China, 610041

    Zhou Yan, Huang Chang-Quan, Lu Zhen-Chan & Dong Bi-Rong

  2. Key Laboratory of Chronobiology of Health Ministry, Basic and Forensic School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    Huang Chang-Quan

  3. Department of Geriatrics, Third Hospital of Mianyang, Mianyang, Sichuan, China

    Huang Chang-Quan

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Yan, Z., Chang-Quan, H., Zhen-Chan, L. et al. Association between sleep quality and body mass index among Chinese nonagenarians/centenarians. AGE 34, 527–537 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-011-9251-3

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