Infant diurnal cortisol predicts sleep.
Infant diurnal cortisol predicts sleep.
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婴儿昼间皮质醇可预测睡眠。
DOI:
10.1111/jsr.13357
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
Tarullo,AmandaR
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作者:
Tuladhar,CharuT;Schwartz,Sophie;StJohn,AshleyM;Meyer,JerroldS;Tarullo,AmandaR
The sleep–wake system is immature at birth and develops in parallel with the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, a biological stress system of which the end product is cortisol. Perturbations in one system during infancy can maladaptively influence the maturation of the other system, leading to lasting sleep and cortisol system dysregulation and heightening the risk of enduring health problems. To better understand the early interplay between these systems, we examined whether actigraphy‐derived measures of night‐time sleep duration and onset were associated with cumulative exposure to cortisol, indexed by hair cortisol concentration, in 12‐month‐old children. Overall, early sleep onset predicted lower hair cortisol above and beyond sleep duration, family income and chaos experienced at home. Furthermore, both sleep and cortisol levels vary day to day, and temporal dependencies between daily sleep and cortisol regulation are not well understood. Thus, we assessed how the sleep characteristics on a particular evening related to salivary cortisol levels the following day and how daytime and evening cortisol related to the sleep characteristics on the same night. Lower total exposure to cortisol on a particular day was related to longer night‐time sleep duration the same night, but not sleep onset. Lower salivary cortisol levels on a given evening related to earlier sleep onset the same night, but not to night‐time sleep duration. Sleep duration and onset on a given night were unrelated to total cortisol exposure the following day. Findings suggest that in early development, the day‐to‐day relation between sleep and cortisol is not bidirectional, but more driven by diurnal cortisol.