Sleep health dimensions and shift work as longitudinal predictors of cognitive performance in the UK Biobank cohort.
Johanna EllJulian E SchielBernd FeigeDieter RiemannCasandra C NyhuisJulio Fernandez-MendozaCéline VetterMartin K RutterSimon D KyleKai SpiegelhalderPublished in: Sleep (2023)
Our results suggest that, after controlling for confounding variables, shift work and short sleep duration are important predictors for cognitive performance in people of middle and old age. Further work is required to examine causal mechanisms of the observed associations.