College of Medicine
Kaufmann Lab
Led by Christopher N Kaufmann · Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics
What we study
The lab studies how sleep disorders in older adults affect health, using data to track health service use and its impact on aging, like cognitive decline. They analyze patterns in sleep-related health care to understand long-term effects.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
The Impact of Idiopathic Hypersomnia on Cardiovascular, Cardiometabolic, and Renal Disorder Outcomes
Examining how sleep disorders affect heart, kidney, and metabolic health in older adults.
Sleep apnea treatment and risk for cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease
Investigating links between sleep apnea treatments and risks of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Cardiovascular risk in narcolepsy: Comparison of type 1 and type 2 in a real-world cohort
2026 · Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
- Untreated obstructive sleep apnea and accelerated cognitive decline over 10 years
2026 · Alzheimer s & Dementia
Follows people with sleep apnea for 10 years to see if CPAP therapy helps their thinking.
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- Eliciting participant perspectives about a mailed brochure on sleeping pills and cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia to inform future implementation of deprescribing interventions
2026 · International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
Asks older adults about a brochure on sleeping pills and therapy for insomnia.
- Napping characteristics and incident dementia: results from the National Health and Aging Trends Study
2026 · The Journals of Gerontology Series A
Checks if napping habits are linked to dementia risk in older adults.
- Obstructive sleep apnea and initiation of GLP-1 receptor agonists versus SGLT2 inhibitors in type 2 diabetes
2026 · Sleep Epidemiology
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