老年人群睡眠特点及其与认知损害相关性的研究进展

Research progress on sleep characteristics in the elderly and its correlation with cognitive impairment

随着年龄的增长,老年人的行为将发生一系列改变,尤其是睡眠改变和认知损害问题会愈发严重。虽然睡眠改变和认知损害可能彼此独立发生,但睡眠的改变特别是睡眠相关疾病可能会增加年龄相关认知功能损害的发生风险。本综述对老年人群的睡眠特点进行分析,并探索其与认知损害的相关性,以期为认知损害的早期预防提供新的思路和方法。

With the increase of age, the elderly will undergo a series of behavioral changes, especially sleep changes and cognitive impairment problems will become more serious. Despite those two changes can occur independently, it cannot be denied that the presence of sleep problems, especially sleep-related disorders may increase the risk of age-related cognitive impairment. This review analyzed the characteristics of sleep among the elderly population, and explored the relationship between characteristics of sleep and cognitive impairment so as to provide new ideas and methods for early prevention of cognitive impairment.