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Association between digestive symptoms and sleep disturbance: a cross-sectional community-based study

Min Kyung Hyun et al. BMC Gastroenterol. 2019.

Abstract

Background: This study was conducted to analyze the association between digestive symptoms and sleep disturbance, and to determine if any digestive symptoms are related to sleep disturbance.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 5792 subjects surveyed in a community-based cohort. Subjects provided information regarding the quality of sleep as assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), as well as digestive symptoms as assessed by the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS). Logistic regressions were used to examine factors associated with sleep quality.

Results: The mean PSQI global score of the no sleep disturbances group (n = 4948) was 3.92 (SD = 2.14), while that of the sleep disturbance group (n = 844) was 11.18 (SD = 2.17). The association between digestive symptoms and sleep disturbance was evaluated by logistic regression after adjusting for cofounding factors. The results revealed that sleep disturbances were associated with digestive symptoms (aOR = 1.29, 95% CI = 1.22-1.36), especially abdominal pains (aOR = 1.63, 95% CI = 1.19-2.25), acid regurgitation (aOR = 1.48, 95% CI = 1.17-1.86), abdominal distension (aOR = 1.80, 95% CI = 1.42-2.28), and eructation (aOR = 1.59, 95% CI = 1.24-2.03).

Conclusions: Digestive symptoms and sleep disturbances seem to be associated. These results will help medical professionals to effectively diagnose and manage patients with sleep disturbance. Furthermore, subsequent studies using comprehensive longitudinal data should be conducted to confirm the results of the present study.

Keywords: Digestive symptoms; Sleep disturbances; The Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study_Ansan and Ansung cohort; The Korean Medicine Data Center.

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Conflict of interest statement

This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Dongguk University, Gyeongju s (DRG IRB 20160009). Patient consent was exempted because of the total anonymity of this study data extracted from Korean Medicine Data Center (KDC) (Bioethics and safety act. Article 16).

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Selection of the cohort population. Among the participants, 5792 completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS)

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