Following 5 good sleep habits added nearly 5 years to a man's life expectancy and almost 2.5 years to a woman's life, a new study found.
"If people have all these ideal sleep behaviors, they are more likely to live longer," said study coauthor Dr. Frank Qian, a clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School and internal medicine resident physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
But you have to do more than just lay in bed longer — you also need have to have an uninterrupted, restful sleep more often than not. That means you don't wake up during the night or have trouble falling asleep more than two times a week. You also have to feel well-rested at least five days a week when you wake up. And finally, you can't be using sleep medications to achieve your slumber.
Each of the five healthy sleep habits — falling asleep easily, staying asleep, getting seven to eight hours of zzz's, waking up rested and foregoing sleep meds — was assigned a number. People were scored on how many of the five habits they had. "Compared to individuals who had zero to one favorable sleep factors, those who had all five were 30% less likely to die for any reason, 21% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease, 19% less likely to die from cancer, and 40% less likely to die of causes other than heart disease or cancer," according to a statement on the study.Men who followed all five of the healthy sleep habits had a life expectancy that was 4.
"Women with obstructive sleep apnea often get underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed because they may not present with the classic symptoms that we see when we're evaluating men," Dasgupta said.
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