CNN News Oct. 18, 2022
People who sleep 5 hours or less a night face higher risk of multiple health problems as they age, study finds | CNN
A large new study published provides evidence that people 50 and older who sleep five hours or less at night have a greater risk of developing multiple chronic diseases as they age compared with peers who get a longer night’s rest.
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PLoS Med OCT. 18, 2022
Association of sleep duration at age 50, 60, and 70 years with risk of multimorbidity in the UK: 25-year follow-up of the Whitehall II cohort study
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In this study, we observed short sleep duration to be associated with risk of chronic disease and subsequent multimorbidity but not with progression to death. There was n …
Sleep Sci JAN. 1, 2018
Sleep duration, lifestyles and chronic diseases: a cross-sectional population-based study
C Reis et al
Socio-demographic, physical activity and chronic diseases were associated to reduction and extension of sleep duration. There was no association between rheumatic disease …
Sleep Med Rev JAN. 1, 2018
Association between long sleep duration and increased risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes: A review of possible mechanisms
X Tan et al
For the last two decades research has revealed an alarming association between short sleep duration and metabolic disorders. In tandem, the hormonal, behavioral, and gene …
Brain Sci NOV. 2, 2019
Insomnia Symptoms among African-American Older Adults in Economically Disadvantaged Areas of South Los Angeles
M Bazargan et al
Among African-American older adults in economically disadvantaged areas of South Los Angeles, insomnia symptoms co-occur with other economic, physical, and mental health …
NPJ Sci Learn OCT. 1, 2019
Sleep quality, duration, and consistency are associated with better academic performance in college students
K Okano et al
Although numerous survey studies have reported connections between sleep and cognitive function, there remains a lack of quantitative data using objective measures to dir …
Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab JAN. 1, 2010
Sleep loss and inflammation
JM Mullington et al
Controlled, experimental studies on the effects of acute sleep loss in humans have shown that mediators of inflammation are altered by sleep loss. Elevations in these med …
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