A new study showed that better self-reported sleeping habits were associated with better health outcomes and cognition. The study analyzed sleep questionnaires from dementia-free participants in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP). The study was written by Lianlian Du, a PhD student in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, as well as numerous investigators from the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute including Tobey Betthauser, PhD, Kimberly Mueller, PhD, CCC-SLP, Megan Zuelsdorff, PhD, Nathaniel Chin, MD, Barbara Bendlin, PhD, Carey Gleason, PhD, MS, and Sterling Johnson, PhD.
The study, “Associations between self-reported sleep patterns and health, cognition, and amyloid measures: results from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention (WRAP),” was published online by Brain Communications on February 24, 2023.
