Commentary: Association between Poor Sleep Quality and Subsequent Peptic Ulcer Recurrence in Older Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Examining the Role of Social Engagement

Wenni Chen,Shuyan Yang,Gengzhen Chen,Yewei Bao,Yu Yu,Hui Han,Ruirui Xu

doi:10.29245/2578-2959/2019/3.1179

Abstract

Commentary: Association between Poor Sleep Quality and Subsequent Peptic Ulcer Recurrence in Older Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Examining the Role of Social Engagement

Highlights

Poor sleep quality is one of the most crucial problems impairing the health of the elderly both physically and psychologically, and so is peptic ulcer disease (PUD)
As the authors pointed out, there isn’t any existing study confirming the association between poor sleep quality and PUD recurrence and the role of social engagement in that relation
Out of 1420 patients, 118 (8.2%) of them were found to have recurrent PUD within 36 months and higher recurrence rate (10.8%) was observed in those with poor sleep quality than that in those with good sleep quality (5.5%)

Summary

Introduction

Keywords Association Sleep quality PUD recurrence Social engagement Older patient H. pylori. Poor sleep quality is one of the most crucial problems impairing the health of the elderly both physically and psychologically, and so is peptic ulcer disease (PUD). As the authors pointed out, there isn’t any existing study confirming the association between poor sleep quality and PUD recurrence and the role of social engagement in that relation.

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