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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 13 2019, @11:35AM   Printer-friendly
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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


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  • (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday November 14 2019, @08:54AM

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Thursday November 14 2019, @08:54AM (#920263) Journal

    What we have now is epsteins's dream.

    If there is ever any american dream again depends on if the people being paid to defend america do their jobs or not.

    Right now, the odds are they will not do their jobs and there will be some kind of purge to get everyone who isn't epstein friendly out so that rapiscan and carbyne can cement the sell out of the united states into place.

    After that when you report your daughter missing, it will be routed first through epstein himself and when he sends someone to kill you that person's weapon won't show up on the scanner.

    We already know the new york times and cnn won't report it, so enjoy being erased from history at that point.

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