Rogerio Takahashi
Centro de Diagnósticos Brasil - Alliança Saúde, São Paulo, Brazil
Tatiana Soares
Norgen Biotek, Thorold, Canada
Ramiro Sienra
Centro de Oncologia e Doenças Autoimunes, São José dos Campos, Brazil
Jose Gabriel Lara Amador
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA
Pilar Loreto Buendía Montenegro
Acute Pain Unit, Hospital del Trabajador, Santiago, Chile
Maria Daniela Sarquis
Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela
Elmustafa Mohamed Saifeldin Fadul Abdalla
Hamad Medical Corporation
Enry Jacob Melgar
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas (UCIMED), San José, Costa Rica
Ewerton Borges de Souza Lima
Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Mariana Alcantara Roldi de Azeredo
Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Frei Galvao - Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Yahaira Tatiana Carpio Colmenares
Alberto Hurtado School of Medicine, Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University, Lima, Peru
Carlos Betancourt-Mendez
Ophthalmology Department - Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Christel Teresa Trifone
Department for General and Abdominal Surgery, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, Chemnitz, Germany
Eva Borges
Unidade Local de Saúde Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal
Jessica Vasconcellos
Instituto D’Or de Pesquisa e Ensino, Brasília, Brazil
Julia Bertuzzo Tavares
Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Vitória Kanjo De Ávila
Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Laura Cecilia Ibanez-Pintor
Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mateus Cendon de Paula
Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
Natalia Rojas Amaris
Medicine Department, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Roger Hiroshi Albornoz Toyohama
Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana Unión, Lima, Peru
Tobias Lerchner
Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
Maria Ximena Rivera Escobar
Universidad Francisco Marroquin
Jose Alberto Genao
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
Guido Felizzia
Hemato-Oncology Department, Hospital de Pediatría J.P. Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Safa Almarzoky Abuhussein
Umm Al-Qura University, Pharmacy College, Pharmacy Practice Department, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Inia Andrea Perez Villa
Unidad de Infectología, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Clínica Alemana de Santiago, Chile; Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Yusuf Adelabu
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria; Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Arthur Gomez da Silva Netto
Departamento de Oncologia, Hematologia e Transplante de Medula Óssea - Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil; Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Maria Carolina Fontana Antunes de Oliveira
University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil; Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Khalid Mahmoud Fadlelmoula Ahmed
Hamad Medical Corporation, Department of Acute Care Surgery, Doha, Qatar; Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Christianne Fernades Valente Takeda
Rede HapVida - NDI, Fortaleza, Brazil; Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gabriel Vallejos Peñaloza
Departamento de Ginecología y Obstetricia, Facultad de Medicina, Clínica Alemana; Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Tatiana Gomez Gomez
Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA; Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mohamed H. Mahmoud
Primary Health Care Corporation - Qatar; Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Sundus Sardar
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA - Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center; Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ygor Junqueira
Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Augusto Mendes
Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ECPE-PPCR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Laboratory of Neuroimaging of Aging (LANVIE), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Nantawan Koonalinthip
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Abstract
Objective: Indoor pollutants such as household dust have been suggested as potential contributors to health problems,
including sleep disturbances. This study investigates the association between household dust exposure and sleep quality
among American adults using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) between
2005 and 2006.
Methods: Data from the NHANES were used in a cross-sectional design. The total dust weight (mg) was the primary
exposure variable, and sleep outcomes included self-reported sleep duration, sleep latency, and physician-diagnosed sleep
disorders. Data analysis was conducted using univariate and multivariate regression models in STATA with adjustments
for confounders.
Results: Data on 5,582 adults aged ≥18 years regarding sleep duration and 4,893 regarding sleep latency were available.
In an adjusted model controlling for age and emotional support, dust weight was significantly associated with a slight
decrease in sleep duration (adjusted β = -0.104, 95%CI: -0.206 to -0.002, p = 0.047). In multivariate logistic regression,
dust weight showed a significant negative association with sleep duration (adjusted OR = 0.854, 95% CI: 0.740–0.985, p =
0.030), while age and emotional support demonstrated positive associations. Sleep latency showed no significant relationship
with dust weight in linear regression analysis, even when controlling for emphysema and PHQ-9 scores (adjusted β =
-0.221, 95% CI: -1.394 to 0.952, p = 0.712). Multivariate logistic regression analysis confirmed that there was no significant
association between dust weight and sleep latency
Conclusions: This study suggests that household dust exposure modestly affects sleep duration, highlighting the value of
improving indoor air quality to enhance sleep health.