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ReviewJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2024

Sex and Sleep Disruption as Contributing Factors in Alzheimer's Disease.

Carrie E Johnson, Marilyn J Duncan, M Paul Murphy

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Review in Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Reproductive neuroendocrine pathways as modulators of sleep-related sex differences in Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  10. Sleep-Wake Transitions Are Impaired in thebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  15. Sex-Dependent Synaptic Alterations in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carrie E JohnsonUniversity of Kentucky, College of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Lexington, KY, USA.
Marilyn J DuncanUniversity of Kentucky, College of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Lexington, KY, USA.
M Paul MurphyUniversity of Kentucky, College of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Lexington, KY, USA.
University of Kentucky · US

Funding

University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Research CenterP30AG072946 · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · 2025 to 2025
$2.8M
Training in Translational Research in Alzheimer's and Related Dementias (TRIAD)T32AG078110 · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · 2025 to 2025
$441k
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072946NIA NIH HHS R01 AG068215NIA NIH HHS T32 AG078110
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects more women than men, with women throughout the menopausal transition potentially being the most under researched and at-risk group. Sleep disruptions, which are an established risk factor for AD, increase in prevalence with normal aging and are exacerbated in women during menopause. Sex differences showing more disrupted sleep patterns and increased AD pathology in women and female animal models have been established in literature, with much emphasis placed on loss of circulating gonadal hormones with age. Interestingly, increases in gonadotropins such as follicle stimulating hormone are emerging to be a major contributor to AD pathogenesis and may also play a role in sleep disruption, perhaps in combination with other lesser studied hormones. Several sleep influencing regions of the brain appear to be affected early in AD progression and some may exhibit sexual dimorphisms that may contribute to increased sleep disruptions in women with age. Additionally, some of the most common sleep disorders, as well as multiple health conditions that impair sleep quality, are more prevalent and more severe in women. These conditions are often comorbid with AD and have bi-directional relationships that contribute synergistically to cognitive decline and neuropathology. The association during aging of increased sleep disruption and sleep disorders, dramatic hormonal changes during and after menopause, and increased AD pathology may be interacting and contributing factors that lead to the increased number of women living with AD.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseSleep Wake DisordersAnimalsCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMultimorbiditySex FactorsSleepAlzheimer’s diseasehormonesmenopausesex differencessleepwomen

Identifiers

PMID38007653
PMCPMC10842753
OpenAlexW4388967311

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