Sleep quality is important to health, and increasingly viewed as critical in promoting successful, resilient aging. In this review, the interplay between sleep and mental and physical health is considered with a focus on the role of inflammation as a biological pathway that translates the effects of sleep on risk of depression, pain and chronic disease risk in aging. Given that sleep regulates ...

Research Center on Aging, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100191, People’s Republic of China; Department of Biochemistry, Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi 046000, People’s Republic of China; Department of Medical Bioinformatics, Peking University Health Science Center, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100191, ...