Participants who reported getting five hours of sleep or less were 20% more likely to have been diagnosed with a chronic disease and 40% more likely to be diagnosed with two or more chronic diseases.
By Muri Assunção, New York Daily News
Researchers with University College London set out to analyze the impact of sleep duration on the health of nearly 8,000 British civil servants, ages 50, 60 and 70, over the course of 25 years. After compiling the information collected at six different “data collection waves,” researchers found that getting five hours of sleep or less in mid-to-late life was associated with “higher multimorbidity risk.”Researchers with University College London find that a lack of sleep comes with extra risks for older people.
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