“Researchers concluded based on the data of over 60K women in the 2013 and 2017 waves of the Nurse’s Health Study that women with MS were more prone than those who haven’t it, report sleep disorders like insomnia, sleep apnea, and sleepiness.”
While thought retardation can be a general symptom of multiple sclerosis in women, new research suggests sleep, or lack of it, could make the condition worse.
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Researchers concluded based on the data of over 60K women in the 2013 and 2017 waves of the Nurse’s Health Study that women with MS were more prone than those who haven’t, report sleep disorders like insomnia, sleep apnea, and sleepiness.
Dr. Tiffany Braley, Director of the Multiple Sclerosis/Neuroimmunology Division and the MS Fatigue and Sleep Clinic at the University of Michigan Health, explained, “Sleep disorders have gained substantial recognition for their role in cognitive [thinking] decline, which affects up to 70% of people with multiple sclerosis.
Dr. Braley extended his words, “Our results highlighted important pathways between sleep and perceptions of cognitive function in women with MS. We have previously identified important associations between objective cognitive performance and sleep in people with MS, but little is known about how sleep and MS interact together to impact long-term cognitive outcomes, particularly among women who are less likely to be diagnosed with sleep disorders.”
Sleep Apnea and Insomnia, and in 2013 contributed to thinking problems in women having MS in 2017 including memory and ability to follow instructions and conversations.
The study revealed sleep apnea-like sleep disorder hails for 34% of the total impact between MS and the ability to follow instructions.
Galit Levi Dunietz, an associate professor in the Department of Neurology’s Division of Sleep Medicine at Michigan Medicine, “With this longitudinal study design, we are able to better estimate the burden of sleep disorders among nurses, compared to health care claims data of similar size, which include diagnosed people with sleep disorders,”.
