Preschoolers' daytime respiratory sinus arrhythmia and nighttime sleep

Elmore-Staton, Lori; El‐Sheikh, Mona; Vaughn, Brian E.; Arsiwalla, Dilbur D.

doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.07.005

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“…The one prospective study reported that both decreased actigraphy- assessed sleep time and decreased sleep continuity, but not parent reports of sleep, predicted a higher resting ratio of low-frequency (sympathetic) to high-frequency (parasympathetic) power at 1-year follow-up in 165 children. 58 Of the five cross-sectional studies, 3 reported positive results, such that shorter or less continuous sleep was linked to lower HF-HRV/RSA either at rest or during stress, 56;59;60 while 2 studies reported null effects or effects in the opposite direction. 50;55;61 In sum, 4 of 6 studies supported a relationship between decreased sleep duration or continuity and decreased parasympathetic activity.…”

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Sleep characteristics and cardiovascular risk in children and adolescents: an enumerative review

2016

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Cardiovascular risk factors develop in childhood and adolescence. This enumerative review addresses whether sleep characteristics, including sleep duration, continuity, quality, and daytime sleepiness, are associated with cardiovascular risk factors in young people. Thirty-nine studies were identified that examined the following risk factors: metabolic syndrome, glucose and insulin, lipids, blood pressure, and cardiovascular responses to psychological stressors. Due to the availability of other reviews, 16 longitudinal studies of obesity published in 2011 and later were also included in this report. Excluded from the review were studies of participants with suspected or diagnosed sleep disorders and reports from sleep deprivation experiments. Combining studies, evidence was strongest for obesity, followed by glucose, insulin, blood pressure (especially ambulatory blood pressure) and parasympathetic responses to psychological stressors. There was little evidence for metabolic syndrome cluster, lipids, and blood pressure responses to psychological stressors. The more positive associations were obtained for studies that incorporated objective measures of sleep and included adolescents. The foundational evidence is almost entirely cross-sectional, except for work on obesity. In summary, available evidence suggests that the associations between sleep characteristics and cardiovascular risk vary by risk factor. It is time to conduct studies to determine antecedent and consequent relationships and to expand risk factors to include markers of inflammation.

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Sleep characteristics and cardiovascular risk in children and adolescents: an enumerative review

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“…School-age children with PNS activation or less vagal withdrawal had more sleep problems and poorer sleep quality than children with greater vagal withdrawal during challenges (46). Children with high RSA reactivity had longer sleep duration and better sleep quality than children with low RSA reactivity (48).…”

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“…For example, children with high resting RSA indices have been found to have fewer sleep problems than children with low resting RSA or more parasympathetic withdrawal (46). Conversely, in a cross-sectional study, school-age children with both low resting RSA and low RSA reactivity had poor sleep quality and shorter sleep duration (47).…”

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Children’s Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity Moderates the Relations between Family Adversity and Sleep Problems in Latino 5-Year Olds in the CHAMACOS Study

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Sleep problems are common for young children especially if they live in adverse home environments. Some studies investigate if young children may also be at a higher risk of sleep problems if they have a specific biological sensitivity to adversity. This paper addresses the research question, does the relations between children’s exposure to family adversities and their sleep problems differ depending on their autonomic nervous system’s sensitivity to challenges? As part of a larger cohort study of Latino, low-income families, we assessed the cross-sectional relations among family demographics (education, marital status), adversities [routines, major life events (MLE)], and biological sensitivity as measured by autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity associated with parent-rated sleep problems when the children were 5 years old. Mothers were interviewed in English or Spanish and completed demographic, family, and child measures. The children completed a 15-min standardized protocol while continuous cardiac measures of the ANS [respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), preejection period (PEP)] were collected during resting and four challenge conditions. Reactivity was defined as the mean of the responses to the four challenge conditions minus the first resting condition. Four ANS profiles, co-activation, co-inhibition, reciprocal low RSA and PEP reactivity, and reciprocal high RSA and PEP reactivity, were created by dichotomizing the reactivity scores as high or low reactivity. Logistic regression models showed there were significant main effects for children living in families with fewer daily routines having more sleep problems than for children living in families with daily routines. There were significant interactions for children with low PEP reactivity and for children with the reciprocal, low reactivity profiles who experienced major family life events in predicting children’s sleep problems. Children who had a reciprocal, low reactivity ANS profile had more sleep problems if they also experienced MLE than children who experienced fewer MLE. These findings suggest that children who experience family adversities have different risks for developing sleep problems depending on their biological sensitivity. Interventions are needed for young Latino children that support family routines and reduce the impact of family adversities to help them develop healthy sleep practices.

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“…Furthermore, among individuals with panic disorder and depression, lower HF-HRV was related to greater self-reported sleep disturbances [41][42][43]. In children, lower HF-HRV during waking restfulness was associated with worse actigraphy-derived sleep efficiency [44]. Furthermore.…”

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High-frequency heart rate variability during worry predicts stress-related increases in sleep disturbances

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Preschoolers' daytime respiratory sinus arrhythmia and nighttime sleep

Cited by 32 publications

References 37 publications

Sleep characteristics and cardiovascular risk in children and adolescents: an enumerative review

Sleep characteristics and cardiovascular risk in children and adolescents: an enumerative review

Children’s Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity Moderates the Relations between Family Adversity and Sleep Problems in Latino 5-Year Olds in the CHAMACOS Study

High-frequency heart rate variability during worry predicts stress-related increases in sleep disturbances

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