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Rest-Activity Patterns in Older Adults with Heart Failure and Healthy Older Adults
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Rest-Activity Patterns in Older Adults with Heart Failure and Healthy Older Adults

Daniel Liebzeit, Cynthia Phelan, Chooza Moon, Roger Brown and Lisa Bratzke
Journal of aging and physical activity, Vol.25(1), pp.116-122
01/2017
DOI: 10.1123/japa.2016-0058
PMCID: PMC6467285
PMID: 27402684

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Abstract

The purpose of this investigation is to examine differences in rest-activity patterns and sleep characteristics in older adults with HF and healthy older adults. The sample included older adults with HF (n = 20) and a reference group of healthy older adults (n = 20). Traditional cosinor analysis was used to assess three parameters of rest-activity from wrist actigraphy data: amplitude (range of activity), mesor (mean activity), and acrophase (time of peak activity). Traditional sleep characteristics were also determined from actigraphy data: Total Sleep Time, Sleep Latency, Sleep efficiency, and Wake after Sleep Onset. The HF group demonstrated significantly lower mesor and amplitude than the reference group (p < 0.01). The HF group had significantly greater TST (p < 0.01), but the groups had similar SE, SL, and WASO. Despite similar sleep characteristics to healthy older adults, overall rest-activity patterns were significantly dampened in those with HF.
heart failure geriatrics sleep disturbance rest-activity patterns circadian rhythm

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