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08-04-2008, 04:25 AM
I was reading an article I found and I found it very interesting, here's a snippit (well perhaps a bit more than a snippit, all the best snippable parts)... just thought I'd share.
Sleeping too much, just like sleeping too little, could be linked to a person's risk of an early death, a new British study indicates.
Researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School studied 10,308 British civil servants in two different time periods: between 1985 and 1988, and between 1992 and 1993.
Study participants who upped their nightly sleep to eight hours or more were more than twice as likely to die within the ensuing 11-17 years as those who kept sleeping for seven. Researchers believe depression, low socioeconomic status and cancer-related fatigue could play a part.Study participants who upped their nightly sleep to eight hours or more were more than twice as likely to die within the ensuing 11-17 years as those who kept sleeping for seven. Researchers believe depression, low socioeconomic status and cancer-related fatigue could play a part.
(CBC)
With seven hours seen as the optimal amount of sleep for the average adult, the study subjects who cut the duration of their sleep from seven hours to five hours a night had a 1.7-fold increased risk of death from all causes within the ensuing 11-17 years, according to the research, presented Monday to the British Sleep Society.
They also had twice the increased risk of death from a cardiovascular problem.
More surprisingly, scientists found those individuals who increased the number of hours they slept per night from seven to eight hours or more were more than twice as likely to die within 11-17 years as those who kept sleeping for seven. They were more likely to die from non-cardiovascular diseases.
I read somewhere, in another article similar to this one, that the whole "you need to get 8 hours of sleep" thing was just a myth and one of the researchers was trying to debunk it. He said he had been in the business for 22 years and he still had no idea where it came from.
So how much sleep do you get? I honestly get about 7-8 hours these days which is good I guess. But I've had times where 5-6 was the norm for probably a few months at a time.
Original article here (http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/09/24/sleep-study.html). I searched to see if this has been posted sooo yeah.
Sleeping too much, just like sleeping too little, could be linked to a person's risk of an early death, a new British study indicates.
Researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School studied 10,308 British civil servants in two different time periods: between 1985 and 1988, and between 1992 and 1993.
Study participants who upped their nightly sleep to eight hours or more were more than twice as likely to die within the ensuing 11-17 years as those who kept sleeping for seven. Researchers believe depression, low socioeconomic status and cancer-related fatigue could play a part.Study participants who upped their nightly sleep to eight hours or more were more than twice as likely to die within the ensuing 11-17 years as those who kept sleeping for seven. Researchers believe depression, low socioeconomic status and cancer-related fatigue could play a part.
(CBC)
With seven hours seen as the optimal amount of sleep for the average adult, the study subjects who cut the duration of their sleep from seven hours to five hours a night had a 1.7-fold increased risk of death from all causes within the ensuing 11-17 years, according to the research, presented Monday to the British Sleep Society.
They also had twice the increased risk of death from a cardiovascular problem.
More surprisingly, scientists found those individuals who increased the number of hours they slept per night from seven to eight hours or more were more than twice as likely to die within 11-17 years as those who kept sleeping for seven. They were more likely to die from non-cardiovascular diseases.
I read somewhere, in another article similar to this one, that the whole "you need to get 8 hours of sleep" thing was just a myth and one of the researchers was trying to debunk it. He said he had been in the business for 22 years and he still had no idea where it came from.
So how much sleep do you get? I honestly get about 7-8 hours these days which is good I guess. But I've had times where 5-6 was the norm for probably a few months at a time.
Original article here (http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/09/24/sleep-study.html). I searched to see if this has been posted sooo yeah.