Older Adults Who Sleep 5 Hours or Less May Be at Higher Risk for Multiple Chronic Diseases
Think you can survive on five hours of sleep per night? Although it might be possible, it could put you at higher risk of developing multiple chronic diseases and earlier death, according to a new study. Investigators found that adults ages 50 and older who slept for five hours or less per night had a greater risk of developing more than one chronic disease when compared with their peers who sleep seven hours. The findings were published October 18 in the open access journal PLoS Medicine.“Our study showed that sleep five hours or less is associated with 30 to 40 percent increased risk of onset of multimorbidity,” says lead author Severine Sabia, PhD, of Université Paris Cité, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), and University College London. The…