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Impact of a Sleep Debt in Middle-Aged and Older Adults

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00817700

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Official title

Alteration of Sleep and Circadian Timing in Aging- Impact of a Sleep Debt in Middle-Aged and Older Adults

Brief summary

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This project has 6 aims. 1. To examine the impact of recurrent partial sleep loss in young, middle-aged and older men and women. Sleep will be restricted to 4 hours. 2. To test the hypothesis that extending bedtimes to allow for sleep recovery will reverse the metabolic, endocrine, and cardiovascular and neuro-behavioral alterations resulting from sleep restriction. Sleep will be extended to 12 hours following the 4 hour sleep restriction. 3. To test the hypothesis that there are age and gender differences in the total amount of sleep recovery obtained during the week of 12-hour bedtimes. 4. To test the hypothesis that there are age and gender differences in sleep capacity (the amount of time an individual can sleep per night when there is no sleep debt). 5. To test the hypothesis that sleep capacity is partly determined by baseline levels of slow-wave sleep and slow-wave activity. 6. To determine whether sleep capacity is related to sleep need by examining metabolic, endocrine, cardiovascular and neuro-behavioral changes with the amount of the individual sleep debt.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00817700
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
University of Chicago
Other
Enrollment
72 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Other

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Mar 31, 2005
Primary completion
Oct 31, 2007
Completion
Apr 30, 2008
Last update posted
Jan 10, 2017

2005 – 2008

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
The University of Chicago Chicago Illinois 60637

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