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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: 2) by aiwarrior on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:59PM (4 children)
Your post touches what 2 points i have been thinking are key to understanding why people tend to socialism:
1> Perceived social benefit is the actual goal to be optimized, not social benefit itself.
2> It is most likely that market based selfishness has the highest global benefit but lowes perceived benefit, and why people try to go away from it.
3> It does not matter: Socialist societies will veer to Capitalism, and Capitalist societies will veer to Socialism, meaning that a meta-stability will arise in a real world, in the form of current western societies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:54PM (3 children)
Late stage socialism: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Another-SF-day-Another-assault-by-a-deranged-man-14454289.php [sfchronicle.com]
One of the most expensive places to live in the world... where you are at risk of crazed homeless people dragging you out of your car and dumping a bucket of diareah they have been storing up for weeks or months on your head. Socialism always ends in an overclass and underclass like this, as the middle class flees.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:57PM
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/11/12/homeless-man-hollywood-dumped-bucket-diarrhea-woman-hes-back-street/ [hotair.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Wednesday November 13 2019, @05:47PM (1 child)
California? Socialist? What planet are you on?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @06:45PM
LOL, nazis weren't socialist either right? They were just all about government meddling in every aspect of people's lives.