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Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 22:11
this certainly doesn't bode well for me

Lack of sleep linked to early death

Getting less than six hours sleep a night can lead to early death, a new study has warned. The researchers say people regularly having too little sleep were 12% more likely to die over a 25-year period than those who got six to eight hours sleep per night. Researchers from the UK and Italy looked at 16 previous international studies involving 1.5million people.

Premature death from all causes was linked to getting either too little or too much sleep outside of the "ideal" six to eight hours per night. The researchers believe getting too much sleep may merely be a sign of pre-existing ill-health and they said modern society has seen a gradual reduction in the average amount of sleep people take. They say if there is a direct causal link between a lack of sleep and death, it would equate to over 6.3 million attributable deaths in the UK in people over 16 years of age.

I only sleep 5-6 hours a day, Now...



source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8660373.stm