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Wallace ML, Redline S, Oryshkewych N, Hoepel SJW, Luik AI, Stone KL, Kolko RP, Chung J, Leng Y, Robbins R, Zhang Y, Barnes LL, Lim AS, Yu L, Buysse DJ. Pioneering a Multi-Phase Framework to Harmonize Self-Reported Sleep Data Across Cohorts. Sleep 2024:zsae115. [PMID: 38752786 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsae115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2024] Open
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVES Harmonizing and aggregating data across studies enable pooled analyses that support external validation and enhance replicability and generalizability. However, the multidimensional nature of sleep poses challenges for data harmonization and aggregation. Here we describe and implement our process for harmonizing self-reported sleep data. METHODS We established a multi-phase framework to harmonize self-reported sleep data: (1) compile items; (2) group items into domains; (3) harmonize items; and (4) evaluate harmonizability. We applied this process to produce a pooled multi-cohort sample of five United States cohorts plus a separate yet fully harmonized sample from Rotterdam, Netherlands. Sleep and sociodemographic data are described and compared to demonstrate the utility of harmonization and aggregation. RESULTS We collected 190 unique self-reported sleep items and grouped them into 15 conceptual domains. Using these domains as guiderails, we developed 14 harmonized items measuring aspects of Satisfaction, Alertness/Sleepiness, Timing, Efficiency, Duration, Insomnia, and Sleep Apnea. External raters determined that 13 of these 14 items had moderate-to-high harmonizability. Alertness/Sleepiness items had lower harmonizability, while continuous, quantitative items (e.g., timing, total sleep time, efficiency) had higher harmonizability. Descriptive statistics identified features that are more consistent (e.g., wake-up time, duration) and more heterogeneous (e.g., time in bed, bedtime) across samples. CONCLUSIONS Our process can guide researchers and cohort stewards towards effective sleep harmonization and provides a foundation for further methodological development in this expanding field. Broader national and international initiatives promoting common data elements across cohorts are needed to enhance future harmonization and aggregation efforts.
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Affiliation(s)
- Meredith L Wallace
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Trimbos Institute - The Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California at San Francisco, San Franciso, California, USA
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Sun H, Adra N, Ayub MA, Ganglberger W, Ye E, Fernandes M, Paixao L, Fan Z, Gupta A, Ghanta M, Moura Junior VF, Rosand J, Westover MB, Thomas RJ. Assessing Risk of Health Outcomes From Brain Activity in Sleep: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Neurol Clin Pract 2024; 14:e200225. [PMID: 38173542 PMCID: PMC10759032 DOI: 10.1212/cpj.0000000000200225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Background and Objectives Patterns of electrical activity in the brain (EEG) during sleep are sensitive to various health conditions even at subclinical stages. The objective of this study was to estimate sleep EEG-predicted incidence of future neurologic, cardiovascular, psychiatric, and mortality outcomes. Methods This is a retrospective cohort study with 2 data sets. The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) sleep data set is a clinic-based cohort, used for model development. The Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS) is a community-based cohort, used as the external validation cohort. Exposure is good, average, or poor sleep defined by quartiles of sleep EEG-predicted risk. The outcomes include ischemic stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, bipolar disorder, depression, and mortality. Diagnoses were based on diagnosis codes, brain imaging reports, medications, cognitive scores, and hospital records. We used the Cox survival model with death as the competing risk. Results There were 8673 participants from MGH and 5650 from SHHS. For all outcomes, the model-predicted 10-year risk was within the 95% confidence interval of the ground truth, indicating good prediction performance. When comparing participants with poor, average, and good sleep, except for atrial fibrillation, all other 10-year risk ratios were significant. The model-predicted 10-year risk ratio closely matched the observed event rate in the external validation cohort. Discussion The incidence of health outcomes can be predicted by brain activity during sleep. The findings strengthen the concept of sleep as an accessible biological window into unfavorable brain and general health outcomes.
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- Haoqi Sun
- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology (HS, NA, MAA, WG, EY, MF, LP, ZF, AG, MG, VFMJ, JR, MBW), Massachusetts General Hospital; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General (HS, VFMJ, JR, MBW); Department of Neurology (HS, WG, AG, MG, VFMJ, MBW), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (MAA), Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Department of Neurology (LP), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and Division of Pulmonary (RJT), Critical Care and Sleep, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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