Older adults who have a genetic predisposition to sleeping five or fewer hours of sleep have a higher risk of developing symptoms of depression.
Older adults who were genetically predisposed to sleeping five or fewer hours a night or who reported sleeping five or fewer hours were at a higher risk for developing depression symptoms, a study found. Short sleepers — those who regularly get five or fewer hours of sleep at night — may be at a higher risk of developing depression symptoms, according to a
Compared with people who sleep seven hours a night, older adults who reported five or fewer hours on average were 2.5 times more likely to develop symptoms of depression later in life. Those were who were genetically predisposed to short sleep were 14 percent more likely to develop symptoms of depression years later in life.
Hamilton said they used polygenic scores to identify individuals with a genetic predisposition for less sleep based on genome-wide association studies. Some people do sleep less and feel fine, they’re not tired or irritable throughout the day, Panda said. And that may be, at least in part, because of genetics.cause someone’s sleep problems, he said. And healthy sleeping habits can reduce the risk of diseases associated with poor sleep, such as depression.
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