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David M. Buchner, MD, MPH

JAMA. 1997;277(1):64-66.

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Some readers may be surprised to find a randomized trial in this issue of JAMA reporting that exercise improves sleep quality in older adults.¹ The readers ask, "Didn't we know that already?" It is conventional wisdom that exercise improves sleep quality. If you wish to impress someone that you truly did a hard day's work, you note that you "slept like a baby" afterward, hitting the covers early and falling asleep instantly. Yet 2 examples illustrate how little is known about exercise and sleep quality in older adults. A geriatrics textbook did not include exercise on the list of nonpharmacologic approaches to insomnia that have been investigated.² The landmark 1996 surgeon general's report on physical activity did not list or discuss improved sleep as a possible health benefit of physical activity.³

Appropriately then, King and colleagues conducted a groundbreaking basic study of the effect of exercise on . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Northwest Center for Outcomes Research Older Adults, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System and the Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle.

Footnotes
Reprints: David M. Buchner, MD, MPH, Department of Health Services, University of Washington, PO Box 357660, SC-37, Seattle, WA 98195-7660.

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