TY - JOUR AU - Del Brutto, Oscar H. AU - M. Mera, Robertino AU - F. Costa, Aldo AU - Peñaherrera, Ernesto AU - Peñaherrera, Rubén AU - R. Castillo, Pablo PY - 2021/11/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - La rigidez arterial no se encuentra asociada con la duración del sueño nocturno en adultos añosos que viven en la comunidad. Resultados del Proyecto Atahualpa. JF - Revista Ecuatoriana de Neurología JA - revecuatneurol VL - 28 IS - 2 SE - Artículos Originales DO - UR - https://revecuatneurol.temp.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/revecuatneurol/article/view/1762 SP - AB - <p><span class="s1"><strong>Objectives:</strong>&nbsp;We aimed to assess the association between arterial stiffness and nighttime sleep duration in community-dwelling older adults living in rural Ecuador.</span></p><p><span class="s1"><strong>Methods</strong>: Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) determinations were used to assess arterial stiffness. Nighttime sleep duration was assessed by a single question. A generalized linear model—adjusted for demographics, cardiovascular risk factors and psychological distress—was fitted to assess the independent association between the aortic PWV and nighttime sleep duration (dependent variable).</span></p><p><span class="s1"><strong>Results</strong>: A total of 303 individuals were enrolled. Univariate analysis showed a significant association between the aortic PWV and long sleep duration (p=0.034), which vanished in a multivariate linear model (p=0.524). The single covariable remaining significant was anxiety (p=0.013).</span></p><p><span class="s1"><strong>Conclusion</strong>: Lack of independent association between arterial stiffness and nighttime sleep duration might be more likely related to lack of reliability of evaluation of sleep duration by means of a single question.</span></p> ER -