In a cohort of older community-dwelling women, unfavorable sleep patterns were associated with cognitive impairment and higher dementia risk, according to data published in Neurology. “Sleep is ...

UC San Francisco study finds women over 80 who experience increased daytime sleepiness face twice the risk of developing ...

A new study finds that women in their 80s who develop increasing daytime sleepiness over five years are twice as likely to ...

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What senior citizen doesn’t enjoy an occasional afternoon nap? But a new study published in the medical journal Neurology ...

A new study, which explored the link between sleep and dementia risk, found that women over the age of 80 who had increasing ...

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"Sleep is essential for cognitive health, as it allows the brain to rest and rejuvenate," said neurologist Yue Leng.

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A new study found that women in their 80s who experience increasing daytime sleepiness over five years have double the risk of developing dementia. While the study doesn’t prove that excessive sleep ...