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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Sleep Med. 2011 Oct 28;12(10):1008–1017. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2011.04.014

Table 2.

Percent distribution of death from 2005 to 2008 and being healthy in 2008 by sleep quality and sleep hours.

Women Men Ages 65–79 Ages 80+ Total
% Of death from 2005 to 2008
Good sleep 42.9 (12.8) 35.6 (12.5) 11.2 (10.1) 53.3 (29.2) 39.6 (12.6)
Fair sleep 44.7 (13.2) 42.2 (15.8) 12.4 (10.9) 56.5 (31.9) 43.6 (14.3)
Poor sleep 41.1 (13.6) 47.3 (22.1) 14.7 (13.1) 59.4 (37.8) 43.3 (16.8)
Slept 5 h or less per day 39.5 (13.5) 42.3 (18.2) 23.6 (12.2) 54.5 (33.3) 40.6 (15.5)
Slept 6 h per day 42.3 (14.5) 37.0 (12.6) 11.4 (10.3) 55.7 (33.9) 40.1 (13.7)
Slept 7 h per day 33.1 (11.5) 32.4 (12.7) 11.0 (10.0) 50.0 (28.1) 32.8 (12.1)
Slept 8 h per day 37.1 (11.2) 29.7 (11.4) 10.4 (9.4) 48.7 (26.0) 33.6 (11.3)
Slept 9 h per day 35.1 (9.7) 30.3 (11.2) 9.9 (8.9) 46.7 (21.8) 32.8 (10.6)
Slept 10 h or more per day 55.9 (17.2) 50.9 (21.2) 16.0 (14.2) 61.3 (37.4) 53.9 (19.2)
Mean score of cumulative health deficit index in 2008
Good sleep 0.23 (0.14) 0.18 (0.12) 0.12 (0.18) 0.28 (0.21) 0.21 (0.13)
Fair sleep 0.26 (0.17) 0.20 (0.13) 0.15 (0.14) 0.31 (0.23) 0.24 (0.15)
Poor sleep 0.25 (0.17) 0.22 (0.16) 0.16 (0.16) 0.32 (0.27) 0.24 (0.17)
Slept 5 h or less per day 0.25 (0.18) 0.20 (0.14) 0.16 (0.15) 0.30 (0.26) 0.23 (0.16)
Slept 6 h per day 0.23 (0.16) 0.18 (0.12) 0.14 (0.13) 0.29 (0.23) 0.21 (0.14)
Slept 7 h per day 0.21 (0.14) 0.16 (0.11) 0.14 (0.12) 0.27 (0.19) 0.19 (0.13)
Slept 8 h per day 0.21 (0.14) 0.17 (0.18) 0.12 (0.12) 0.27 (0.20) 0.19 (0.13)
Slept 9 h per day 0.23 (0.15) 0.15 (0.10) 0.12 (0.11) 0.26 (0.20) 0.19 (0.12)
Slept 10 h or more per day 0.30 (0.17) 0.23 (0.14) 0.15 (0.14) 0.32 (0.26) 0.27 (0.16)

Note: numbers in the parentheses are weighted, while others are unweighted; Cumulative health deficit index ranges 0 ~ 1.