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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aging Clin Exp Res. 2018 Sep 3;30(11):1307–1318. doi: 10.1007/s40520-018-1030-x

Table 3.

Sleep Quantity and Quality Measuresin Relation to Cognitive Test Scores

Cognitive Test Sleep Measure   Estimate f Std. Error  p value

MMSE (points) a Sleep quantity e  
 Short (<7 hours)   0.624 0.495 0.21
 Long (>8 hours)   −1.141 0.433 <0.01*
Sleep somnolence   −0.016 0.013 0.19
Sleep problems index II   0.006 0.020 0.75
Sleep adequacy   −0.009 0.021 0.67
CVLT (words) b Sleep quantity e  
 Short (<7 hours)   0.400 0.390 0.31
 Long (>8 hours)   −0.992 0.342 <0.01*
Sleep somnolence   0.002 0.011 0.85
Sleep problems index II   0.007 0.016 0.68
Sleep adequacy   −0.017 0.017 0.32
BNT (items) c Sleep quantity e  
 Short (<7 hours)   0.077 0.339 0.82
 Long (>8 hours)   0.015 0.304 0.96
Sleep somnolence   0.009 0.009 0.34
Sleep problems index II   0.015 0.013 0.25
Sleep adequacy   −0.007 0.015 0.61
TMT B (seconds) d Sleep quantity e  
 Short (<7 hours)   −4.859 16.039 0.76
 Long (>8 hours)   34.969 14.479 0.02*
Sleep somnolence   0.345 0.467 0.46
Sleep problems index II   −0.084 0.689 0.90
Sleep adequacy   −0.422 0.680 0.54

Abbreviations: MMSE, mini-mental state examinations; CVLT, California verbal learning test; BNT, Boston naming test;TMT B, trails making test B

*

p<0.05 indicates significance

Notes:

a

Scored as number of points, with higher score indicating better performance.

b

Scored as number of words recalled, with higher score indicating better performance.

c

Scored as number of items correct, with higher score indicating better performance.

d

Scored as time to completion in seconds, with lower score indicating better performance.

e

Participants in the short sleep (<7 hours) and long sleep (>8 hours) categories are compared to participants in the optimal sleep group (7–8 hours).

f

Every unit increase in the sleep measure is associated with an increase or decrease (−) in units of the cognitive measure.