Ethnic differences in self-reported sleep duration in the Netherlands - the HELIUS study
Ethnic differences in self-reported sleep duration in the Netherlands - the HELIUS study
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DOI:
10.1016/j.sleep.2014.04.019
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发表时间:
2014-09-01
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4.8
通讯作者:
Agyemang, Charles
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Anujuo, Kenneth;Stronks, Karien;Agyemang, Charles
Background: We investigated ethnic differences in sleep duration, and the contribution of socioeconomic status (SES) to the observed differences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Methods: 6959 participants (aged 18-71 years) from the multi-ethnic HELIUS cohort were studied. Outcome variables were short sleep (= 9 h/night). Comparisons among groups were made using Prevalence Ratios (PRs).Results: Ethnic minority groups were more likely than ethnic-Dutch to report short sleep, with prevalence ranging from 15.1% to 49.7% in men and 16.3% to 41.4% in women. Among men, the age-adjusted PRs ranged from 2.15 (95% CI 1.72-2.69) in Turkish to 3.31 (2.75-3.99) in Ghanaians; and among women, from 1.62 (1.30-2.01) in Turkish to 2.52 (2.15-2.95) in African-Surinamese, respectively. The prevalence of long sleep was significantly higher only in Moroccan men and all the ethnic minority women than in ethnic-Dutch women except for African-Surinamese. Adjustment for SES explains the ethnic difference in long sleep, but not for short sleep.Conclusion: Ethnic minority groups reported more short sleep than ethnic-Dutch, while there were no ethnic differences in long sleep. Further study is needed to investigate how this finding on short sleep may contribute to ethnic differences in health outcomes. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.