Trial reportPsychoneuroendocrinology2015
Improved sleep quality in older adults with insomnia reduces biomarkers of disease risk: pilot results from a randomized controlled comparative efficacy trial.
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Aging: Cytokine Mechanisms and Treatment of Insomnia
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 128 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Sleep Disturbance, Sleep Duration, and Inflammation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies and Experimental Sleep Deprivation.Biological psychiatry · 2016Pooled it
- The effect of non-pharmacological sleep interventions on glycaemic measures in adults with sleep disturbances and behaviours: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Diabetes & vascular disease researchPooled it
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- Mitigating the health effects of systemic racism: Evaluation of the Race-Based Stress and Trauma Empowerment intervention.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Trial
- The effects of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, pilot RCT part II: diabetes health outcomes.BMC endocrine disorders · 2020Trial
- Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia on Sleep, Symptoms, Stress, and Autonomic Function Among Patients With Heart Failure.Behavioral sleep medicineTrial
- Area of residence modifies the association between sleep disorders and health-related quality of life in older adults: a cross-sectional analysis of two cohort studies in Mexico.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Dysglycemia-Based Chronic Disease and Lifestyle Medicine: Mechanistic Interpretation Using the Allostatic Load Model.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2026Review
- Physical activity for insomnia: a scoping review within the Nursing Science Precision Health model.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- A cross-sectional study of the association between sleep disturbance profiles, unmet mental health or substance use needs, and presenteeism among United States activity-duty service members using the 2018 health-related behaviours survey (HRBS).Journal of sleep research · 2025Article
- Disparities in Allostatic Load Among Different Races: A Comprehensive Scoping Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Review
- Human Gene Expression Profile Analysis of Insomnia and Pre-insomnia Disorders: A Cellular Study.Basic and clinical neuroscience · 2025Article
- Prevalence and Factors Associated with Insomnia Among Chronic Disease Patients in Bangladesh: A Machine Learning Study.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Article
- Allostatic Interoceptive Overload Across Psychiatric and Neurological Conditions.Biological psychiatry · 2025Review
- Allostatic Load, Morbidity, and Mortality Among Older Adults: A Multi-Wave Analysis From the National Health and Aging Trends Study.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2024Article
- Improving the design of patient-generated health data visualizations: design considerations from a Fitbit sleep study.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024Article
- Inflammatory hypotheses of sleep disturbance - depression link: Update and research agenda.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2023Article
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Abstract
importanceSleep disturbances have been linked to increased morbidity and mortality, yet it is unknown whether improving sleep quality in older adult patients with insomnia alters biomarkers of diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk.
objectiveDetermine the comparative efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), tai chi chih (TCC), and a sleep seminar control (SS) to reduce multisystem biomarkers of disease risk in older adults with insomnia.
designRandomized controlled comparative efficacy trial.
settingLos Angeles community.
participantsA population-based sample of 109 older adults with chronic and primary insomnia.
interventionRandom assignment to CBT, TCC, or SS for 2-h group sessions weekly over 4 months with a 16-month evaluation (1 year after follow-up). MAIN OUTCOME(S) AND MEASURE(S): Multisystem biological risk comprised of 8 biomarkers: high-density lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein, triglycerides, hemoglobinA1c, glucose, insulin, C-reactive protein, and fibrinogen. Using clinical laboratory cutoffs defined as abnormal, a multisystem risk score was computed representing a sum of the deviation around the cutoffs across the 8 biomarkers. In addition, high risk grouping was classified if subjects exhibited 4 or more biomarkers in the abnormal laboratory range.
resultsAn interaction of time-by-treatment-by-high risk group was found (F(4, 197.2)=3.14, p=.02) in which both TCC (p=.04) and CBT (p=.001) showed significantly lower risk scores as compared to SS at 16-months. CBT reduced risk of being in the high risk group at 4-months (odds ratio [OR]=.21 [95% CI, .03-1.47], p<.10) and at 16-months (OR=.06 [95% CI, .005-.669]; p<.01). TCC reduced the risk at 16-months (OR=.10 [95% CI, .008-1.29]; p<.05) but not at 4 months. Of participants who were classified in the high risk category at baseline, improvements in sleep quality, as defined by a clinical severity threshold, reduced the likelihood of being in the high risk group at 16-months, OR=.08 (95% CI, .008-.78); p=.01. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Participants classified as having high multisystem biological risk at entry and assigned to CBT or TCC show improvements in risk scores after one year follow-up. Given that these clinical biomarkers are associated with cardiovascular, metabolic, and inflammatory disease risk, improving sleep quality has the potential to reduce the risk of chronic disease in older adults with insomnia. Clinical Trial Registration # and name—ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00280020, Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia in Aging
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