Journal article
Sleep Duration and Patterns in Chinese Older Adults: a Comprehensive Meta-analysis
Li Lu, Shi-Bin Wang, Wen-Wang Rao, Gabor S Ungvari, Chee H Ng, Helen FK Chiu, Juan Zhang, Changgui Kou, Fu-Jun Jia, Yu-Tao Xiang
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES | IVYSPRING INT PUBL | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.19695
Abstract
This meta-analysis examined the mean sleep duration and patterns in Chinese older adult population. A literature search was systematically conducted covering major English (PubMed, Embase and PsycINFO) and Chinese (Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), WanFang and SinoMed) databases. Data in studies with the mean and standard deviation of sleep duration and/or the proportion of short and long sleep durations in Chinese older adults were extracted and pooled using random-effects models. Subgroup analyses were conducted according to gender, region, area, survey time and sample size. A total of 36 studies with 150,616 subjects were included for analyses. The pooled mean sleep durati..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The study was supported by the University of Macau (SRG2014-00019-FHS; MYRG2015-00230-FHS; MYRG2016-00005-FHS). The University of Macau had no role in the study design, generating or interpreting the results and publication of the study.