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Siempre se ha pensado que las personas mayores tienen m\u00e1s problemas para conciliar el sue\u00f1o que la gente joven. Pero ahora, un reciente estudia asegura que lograr un buen descanso nocturno puede ser m\u00e1s f\u00e1cil con los a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n
El estudio, basado en una encuesta telef\u00f3nica con m\u00e1s de 150.000 adultos estadounidenses, mostr\u00f3 que las personas de 80 a\u00f1os se quejaban mucho menos de sus pautas de sue\u00f1o, mientras que los de mediana edad, especialmente las mujeres, eran quienes ten\u00edan m\u00e1s problemas para dormir.<\/p>\n
\u201cEsto va en contra de la creencia popular\u201d, dijo Michael Grandner, autor principal del estudio publicado en la revista Sleep. \u201cEstos resultados nos obligan a repensar lo que sabemos sobre el sue\u00f1o en las personas mayores, tanto en hombres como en mujeres\u201d.<\/p>\n
La encuesta al azar se bas\u00f3 en datos que las personas suministraban y no en la medici\u00f3n real de sus pautas de sue\u00f1o. M\u00e1s de 70 millones de personas en los Estados Unidos sufren alg\u00fan tipo de trastorno del sue\u00f1o, de acuerdo con la Academia Estadounidense de Medicina del Sue\u00f1o (AASM, por sigla en ingl\u00e9s).<\/p>\n
Sin embargo Grandner, investigador asociado del Centro para la neurobiolog\u00eda del sue\u00f1o y ritmo circadiano en la Escuela de Medicina de Perlman en la Universidad de Pensilvania dijo que las percepciones son importantes: \u201cIncluso si el sue\u00f1o de los estadounidenses de edad avanzada es en realidad peor que en los adultos m\u00e1s j\u00f3venes, los sentimientos acerca del sue\u00f1o mejoran con la edad\u201d, dijo Grandner.
\n\u201cUna vez que se dejan de lado cosas como una enfermedad o una depresi\u00f3n, las personas mayores deben reportar un mejor sue\u00f1o. Si no lo hacen, tienen que hablar con su m\u00e9dico. No deben ignorarlo\u201d.<\/p>\n
Nota de AFP:<\/p>\n
Sleep quality \u00abimproves with age\u00bb
\nThe belief that older people tend to suffer worse sleep may be false – in fact the reverse may be true, according to US researchers.<\/p>\n
A telephone survey of more than 150,000 adults suggested that, apart from a blip in your 40s, sleep quality gets better with age.<\/p>\n
Those in their 80s reported the best sleep, says the study in Sleep journal.<\/p>\n
A UK sleep researcher said while poor health could affect sleep, it was a \u00abmyth\u00bb that age alone was a factor.<\/p>\n
While universities have equipment which can measure sleep duration and disturbance in study volunteers, this does not always match the volunteer’s own opinion on their night’s rest.<\/p>\n
The research, conducted by the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania, instead focused on asking large numbers of randomly selected people about their sleep.<\/p>\n
They were also asked about their race, income, education, mood and general health.<\/p>\n
While being depressed or having health problems was linked to poor sleep quality, once the researchers had adjusted the results to compensate for this, a distinct pattern emerged.<\/p>\n
Instead, they found that complaints about poor sleep quality fell as age rose, with the lowest number of complaints coming from the over-70s.<\/p>\n
The only exception to this trend was middle age, where sleep quality was poorer. Dr Michael Grandner said the original reason for setting up the study was to confirm the precise opposite – that sleep quality declined in old age.<\/p>\n
He said: \u00abThese results force us to re-think what we know about sleep in older people – men and women.\u00bb<\/p>\n
He suggested that it was possible that older people were sleeping worse, but simply felt better about it.<\/p>\n
\u00abEven if sleep among older Americans is actually worse than in younger adults, feelings about it still improve with age.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Professor Derk-Jan Dijk, Professor of Sleep and Physiology and Director of the Surrey Sleep Research Centre, said the study was \u00abinteresting\u00bb.<\/p>\n
He said: \u00abWe have got to get away from all these myths about ageing – many people are very content with their sleep.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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