Insomnia and Telomere Length in Older Adults
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Insomnia, particularly in later life, may raise the risk for chronic diseases of aging and mortality through its effect on cellular aging. The current study examines the effects of insomnia on telomere length, a measure of cellular aging, and tests whether insomnia interacts with chronological age to increase cellular aging. A total of 126 males and females (60–88 y) were assessed for insomnia using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV criterion for primary insomnia and the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, Second Edition for general insomnia (45 insomnia cases; 81 controls). Telomere length in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) was determined using real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) methodology. In the analysis of covariance model adjusting for body mass index and sex, age (60–69 y versus 70–88 y) and insomnia diagnosis interacted to predict shorter PBMC telomere length (P = 0.04). In the oldest age group (70–88 y), PBMC telomere length was significantly shorter in those with insomnia, mean (standard deviation) M(SD) = 0.59(0.2) compared to controls with no insomnia M(SD) = 0.78(0.4), P = 0.04. In the adults aged 60–69 y, PBMC telomere length was not different between insomnia cases and controls, P = 0.44. Insomnia is associated with shorter PBMC telomere length in adults aged 70–88 y, but not in those younger than 70 y, suggesting that clinically severe sleep disturbances may increase cellular aging, especially in the later years of life. These findings highlight insomnia as a vulnerability factor in later life, with implications for risk for diseases of aging. This study provides novel evidence that insomnia in older adults is associated with a marker of aging at the cellular level, telomere length. Telomere length is an indicator of morbidity and mortality risk, having been related to earlier onset of disease, accelerated progression of disease, and earlier death. Insomnia may accelerate the rate at which the body ages and through this pathway increase risk for disease and death. Future research should target the successful treatment of insomnia and examine whether remission offers benefits to physical health by slowing or reversing aging.
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- Authors
- Carroll, J. E., Esquivel, S., Goldberg, A., Seeman, T. E., Effros, R. B., Dock, J., Olmstead, R., Breen, E. C., & Irwin, M. R.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Children's National (US)
- Corresponding author
- Carroll, Judith E.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Sleep
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2016-03-01
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 559-564
- ISSN
- 0161-8105 (ISSN-L)
- 1550-9109
- PMC
- PMC4763369
- OpenAlex
- W2315258249
- Cited by
- 85
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 13.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- SLEEP (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000124)
- National Institute on Aging (AG028748, R01AG026364, R01AG034588, K01AG044462, R01AG032422, P30AG028748)
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32MH019925)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Keywords
- insomnia, telomere length, cellular aging, older adults, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, chronic disease risk, mortality risk, aging
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Chronic Disease, Female, Humans, Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders, Leukocytes, Mononuclear, Male, Middle Aged, Risk, Case-Control Studies, Telomere, Cellular Senescence, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
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