High Pesticide Exposure Events and Dream-Enacting Behaviors Among US Farmers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dream-enacting behavior is a characteristic feature of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, the most specific prodromal marker of synucleinopathies. Pesticide exposure may be associated with dream-enacting behaviors, but epidemiological evidence is limited.

Objectives

To examine high pesticide exposure events in relation to dream-enacting behaviors among farmers in the Agricultural Health Study.

Methods

We conducted multivariable logistic regression analyses to examine high pesticide exposure events reported from 1993 to 1997 in relation to dream-enacting behaviors assessed from 2013 to 2015 among 11,248 farmers (age 47 ± 11 years).

Results

A history of dream-enacting behaviors was reported by 939 (8.3%) farmers. Compared with farmers who did

SUBMITTER: Yuan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9524747 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature