Oo, Hnin Hnin https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1410-2284
Wu, Zhao Helen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8968-9286
Liu, Dashun https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7437-7213
Lenka, Jyoti https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9699-1694
Maheshwari, Narinder https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6206-1825
Salmon, Adrian https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5900-2260
Article History
Received: 22 November 2025
Revised: 6 March 2026
Accepted: 27 March 2026
First Online: 2 April 2026
Declarations
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: The initial MESA Sleep Ancillary Study cohort involving human participants was in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent was obtained from each participant and Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval was obtained at each site in the original study. Our retrospective post-hoc secondary cross-sectional analysis of the data was exempt as non-human subject study by the IRB of UConn Health.
: The participants of the original MESA Sleep Ancillary Study cohort consented to the publication of data. Our retrospective post-hoc secondary cross-sectional analysis of the data was exempt as non-human subject study by the IRB of UConn Health.
: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.