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Ethnicity, sleep, mood, and illumination in postmenopausal women

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Kripke, Daniel F, Jean-Louis, Girardin, Elliott, Jeffrey A, Klauber, Melville R, Rex, Katharine M, Tuunainen, Arja, Langer, Robert D·2004·BMC Psychiatry

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BACKGROUND: This study examined how ethnic differences in sleep and depression were related to environmental illumination and circadian rhythms. METHODS: In an ancillary study to the Women's Health Initiative, 459 postmenopausal women were recorded for one week in their homes, using wrist monitors. Sleep and illumination experience were estimated. Depression was self-rated with a brief adjective check list. Affective diagnoses were made using the SCID interview. Sleep disordered breathing was monitored with home pulse oximetry. RESULTS: Hispanic and African-American women slept less than European-American women, according to both objective recordings and their own sleep logs. Non-European-American women had more blood oxygen desaturations during sleep, which accounted for 26% of sleep duration variance associated with ethnicity. Hispanic women were much more depressed. Hispanic, African-American and Native-American women experienced less daily illumination. Less daily illumination experience was associated with poorer global functioning, longer but more disturbed sleep, and more depression. CONCLUSIONS: Curtailed sleep and poor mood were related to ethnicity. Sleep disordered breathing was a factor in the curtailed sleep of minority women. Less illumination was experienced by non-European-American women, but illumination accounted for little of the contrasts between ethnic groups in sleep and mood. Social factors may be involved.

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Authors
Kripke, D. F., Jean-Louis, G., Elliott, J. A., Klauber, M. R., Rex, K. M., Tuunainen, A., & Langer, R. D.
Affiliations
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • University of Helsinki (FI)
Corresponding author
Kripke, Daniel F
Venue
BMC Psychiatry
Published
2004-04-07
Volume
4
Issue
1
Pages
8-8
ISSN
1471-244X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1914456932
Cited by
69
References
29
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FWCI
7.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • BMC Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Aging (AG 15763, R01AG012364, AG-12364, R01AG015763)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL055983, HL61280, HL 55983, R01HL061280)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
Keywords
ethnicity, sleep duration, depression, ambient light, circadian rhythm, postmenopausal women, Hispanic women, African American women, Native American women, sleep-disordered breathing, mood, minority health disparities
MeSH terms
Aged, Black or African American, Circadian Rhythm, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depressive Disorder, Ethnicity, Female, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Lighting, Middle Aged, Monitoring, Physiologic, Oximetry, Prospective Studies, Sleep, Sleep Apnea Syndromes, Women's Health, Postmenopause, White People

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