RESEARCHERS say the best length for a nightly sleep is around seven hours.
Researchers from the University of Warwick and the Federico II
University in Naples studied the nightly habits of thousands of people
and found poor sleepers are 12 per cent more likely to die prematurely
than those who get six to eight hours.
Their findings provide
the most convincing evidence yet of a link between too little sleep and
an increased risk of early death. Many people sleep five hours or less a
night.
Long sleepers could also be in trouble.
While
over-sleeping does not in itself increase the risk of death, it can be a
significant marker of an underlying serious illness.
The findings published in journal Sleep today
coincide with the release of a separate American study that found older
people tend to sleep better - the opposite of what was previously
thought.
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