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The Relationship between Sleep Quality and Brain Amyloid Burden.
Sleep - 1 May 2016
Brown Belinda M, Rainey-Smith Stephanie R, Villemagne Victor L, Weinborn Michael, Bucks Romola S, Sohrabi Hamid R, Laws Simon M, Taddei Kevin, Macaulay S Lance, Ames David, Fowler Christopher, Maruff Paul, Masters Colin L, Rowe Christopher C, Martins Ralph N
Abstract excerpt
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the association between self-reported sleep quality and levels of brain β-amyloid (Aβ) burden, and to determine the effect of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele on any associations found. METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional analysis of 184 cognitively healthy men and women aged over 60 y. We measured sleep quality factors: specifically, sleep duration, latency (time taken to...
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