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Too much sleep linked to a greater risk of disease and death, study finds
- gregjor 8y agoSigh. Risk of death still 100% no matter what you do.
- smt88 8y agoRisk of death in the next x years is not, nor is risk of death before age y. That's what the headline is referring to, although I didn't check the paper for the actual time period used.
- gregjor 8y agoIt actually refers to deaths per 1,000 per year over a nearly 8 year study period. People who slept more or less than 6-8 hrs/night died at a higher rate. So the article refers to an actual “risk of death” during the study period. More worrying, though, is that the headline implies causation: more or less sleep = increased risk, whereas the body of the article back-pedals and says people who are sick sleep more, so there’s just a correlation.
- DrScump 8y agoThis is just survey data with no objectively-measured details, apparently. "Excess" sleep is often associated with low quality sleep, which is often associated with other negative health factors such as obesity, shift work, sleep apnea, etc. Cause and effect are conflated here.