Lifetime coffee consumption, pineal gland volume, and sleep quality in late life
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Study Objectives: Previous studies have shown that coffee consumption may suppress the production of melatonin in pinealocytes through competitive inhibition of adenosine A2 receptors by caffeine. We investigated the impact of lifetime coffee consumption on pineal gland volume and the resulting effects on sleep quality. Methods: We enrolled 162 cognitively normal elderly individuals among the participants in the Korean Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging and Dementia. We evaluated the patterns and amounts of coffee consumption using a study-specific standardized interview and assessed sleep quality using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. We measured the volume of pineal parenchyma (VPP) by manually segmenting the pineal gland on high-resolution three-dimensional T1-weighted magnetic resonance images. We examined the impact of lifetime coffee consumption on the VPP and the resulting effects on sleep quality using analysis of covariance, multiple linear regression, and mediation analyses. Results: We found that smaller VPP was associated with higher cumulative lifetime coffee consumption. Participants who consumed more than 60 cup-years of coffee had VPPs that were smaller by about 20% than individuals who consumed less than 60 cup-years of coffee. The VPP mediated the association between lifetime coffee consumption and sleep efficiency and quality. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that high lifetime coffee consumption may reduce VPP, and that this reduction in VPP may impair the quality of sleep in late life.
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Among adults with average daily caffeine intake of 164.9 mg, 80% suffered from sleep disturbances once a week.
“Furthermore, a survey on the quality of sleep in 26 adult men and 54 women with an average daily caffeine intake of 164.9 mg, showed that 80% of respondents suffered from sleep disturbances once a week [100].”
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- Authors
- Park, J., Han, J. W., Lee, J. R., Byun, S., Suh, S. W., Kim, T., Yoon, I. Y., & Kim, K. W.
- Affiliations
- Seoul National University (KR)
- Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
- Corresponding author
- Kim, Ki Woong
- Venue
- SLEEP
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- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2018-07-14
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 10
- ISSN
- 0161-8105 (ISSN-L)
- 1550-9109
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- W2884212434
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- 27
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- journal article
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- en
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- Korean Health Technology
- Ministry of Health, Welfare, Republic of Korea (HI09C1379 [A092077])
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Coffee research and impacts
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Keywords
- coffee consumption, pineal gland volume, sleep quality, melatonin, caffeine, adenosine A2 receptor, sleep efficiency, older adults, cognitive aging, mediation
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Caffeine, Coffee, Cognition, Dementia, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Melatonin, Middle Aged, Pineal Gland, Sleep, Linear Models, Imaging, Three-Dimensional
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