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More Americans struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep
Getting the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep every night is a struggle for most people, but even those who do may not have the best sleep.
New research from Iowa State University finds more Americans have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. The changes were independent of sleep duration, and difficulties were most prevalent in people with healthy sleep length, the findings show. The study, published in the journal Sleep Health, is one of the first to look at how multiple dimensions of sleep health change over time.
Zlatan Krizan, professor of psychology, and his research team analyzed data collected from nearly 165,000 individuals from 2013 to 2017, as part of the National Health Interview Survey. Over the course of five years, adults who reported at least one day a week with difficulty falling asleep increased by 1.43% and those reporting at least one day with trouble staying asleep increased by 2.70%. While the percentages may seem small, Krizan says based on 2018 population estimates this means as many as five million more Americans are experiencing some sleep difficulties.
"Indeed, how long we sleep is important, but how well we sleep and how we feel about our sleep is important in its own right," Krizan said. "Sleep health is a multidimensional phenomenon, so examining all the aspects of sleep is crucial for future research."
Garrett C. Hisler, Diana Muranovic, Zlatan Krizan. Changes in sleep difficulties among the U.S. population from 2013 to 2017: results from the National Health Interview Survey. Sleep Health, 2019; DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2019.08.008
(Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:19PM (2 children)
What war escalations? It's been pretty mild since the end of the Cold War and that's including half a dozen or so big wars and a few genocides. Things have gone remarkably well from the situation in the first half of the 20th Century.
Why should it ever be their decision to make? Those poor people can make decisions as well.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday November 15 2019, @11:56AM (1 child)
spoken like a true zionist
As long as israel gets to steal some more land this week and harvey weinstein can safely rehabilitate his image, the rest of the world can burn and you sleep well.
Other people aren't as awful as you, so they see the world differently.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 15 2019, @02:17PM