LONDON (AFP) – People who get less than six hours sleep per night have an increased risk of dying prematurely, researchers said on Wednesday.
Those who slumbered for less than that amount of time were 12 percent more likely to die early, though researchers also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours and premature death.
“If you sleep little, you can develop diabetes, obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol,” Francesco Cappuccio, who led research on the subject at Britain’s University of Warwick, told AFP.
The study, conducted with the Federico II University in Naples, Italy, aggregated decade-long studies from around the world involving more than 1.3 million people and found “unequivocal evidence of the direct link” between lack of sleep and premature death.
“We think that the relation between little sleep and illness is due to a series of hormonal and metabolical mechanisms,” Cappuccio said.
The findings of the study were published in the Sleep journal.
Cappuccio believes the duration of sleep is a public health issue and should be considered as a behavioural risk factor by doctors.
“Society pushes us to sleep less and less,” Cappuccio said, adding that about 20 percent of the population in the United States and Britain sleeps less than five hours.
Sleeping less than six hours is “more common amongst full-time workers, suggesting that it may be due to societal pressures for longer working hours and more shift work”
The study also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours per night and premature death, but Cappuccio said oversleeping is more likely to be an effect of illness, rather than a cause.
“Doctors never ask how much one sleeps, but that could be an indicator that something is wrong,” said Cappuccio, who heads the Sleep, Health and Society Programme at the University of Warwick.
Research showed no adverse effects for those sleeping between six and eight hours per day.
credit from yahoo_sleep journal……
i never have enough sleep…the longest tyme i ever sleep will be 6hours daily….hmmmmm T_____T
fell scared after reading this….
End of sem story..
1 more paper to go…yeay,2morow will be the last paper for me in this sem(sem5) it a killer paper yet i still have’t finished study it,still browsing around…ekekeke!
i just finished another paper today that y felling a little lazy and sleepy but cannot sleep,aigo!!!shah alam still hot but it raining everyday…
there been so much story happen this sem,yet everything about people around me…it the end i think it soo difficult for everyone to be able to suitable and understand another some1 even we know that person for ages,it like the tyme has changes everything we know about that some1…or we the only1 who never gone to change…this matter keep on of in my head(like jason derulo song-in my head)i kepp wondering whether i am the only1 who stay the same (joey song)or the other people has already change with the tyme???confusing lol!
looking back to the old tyme,yup it only me stay the same still listen to the same song and move only a little bit to the front…how could it be??never realize it…there a friends who already married and change their status to in relationship…aish,life is complicated >_<
This sem i still search for my self that i ever want to be yet there sill no answer,people say just follow the flow and i will end up at something..but it not good cause i fell like i'm living my life without direction and clueless..i'm living my life cold and loveless sometimes @_@.I fell like to have an antique life….mayb!
back to home town…
After spending most of my tiyme here in shah alam searching for knowledge…i now will officially going home…yey,it been almost 2 and half month i been here…9 mei will be my last day at shah alam because i will going back home and get the rest and peace i ever wanted and search…
missing lots of things..
1.My PC
ohhhh so damm miss it since all my another world was there…my dbsk,my japan song and oll the good stuff
2.my comic collection.
I end up collect 3 comic this sem..2 comic tittle buah (the writer from korea) tat y i end up buy it,after reading it,it was ok la…the drawing nice..another one is japaness comic title ubatku…a witch story…
3.My good oll friends.
Where are this guys,i just miss them …uhukuhuk (*_*)
i miss my imeem and Mc team too…i miss some1 who already gone too..*inlovingmemoryofzirayunnie* Since i know her last 2007 we has been a good 0n9 friend..
4.My day when everything goes ok.
Heeee…it too complicated to think but i miss this kind of day…
~done with writing now,going to continue with u are beautiful story……
bye for now…thanks for who ever who drop here
remember stay cool and appreciate everything we have around us cause it might change suddenly and we lost it forever!
love is mystery!i miss jaj joong too!!!!!!
akinishi
