Decreases in slow wave sleep associate with a higher risk of incident Alzheimer’s disease dementia in a community sample

Background Sleep disturbance is common in dementia, although it is unclear whether changes in sleep architecture precede dementia onset. We examined the prospective association of changes in sleep architecture with the risk of incident Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia in the community‐based Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Methods Our sample comprised a subset of 294 FHS Offspring participants who participated in the Sleep Heart Health Study Visit...