Wake-up call to establish regular healthy sleeping patterns

04 Mar 2024 by Ted Escobedo 1 min read

It's official. Getting the recommended 7-9 hours of sleep a night is currently out of reach for almost one-third of the population as Flinders University experts found 31% of adults had average sleep durations outside the recommended range.

The global study of thousands of adults published in Sleep Health found only 15% of people slept the recommended 7-9 hours for five or more nights per week -- and among those who did achieve an average of 7-9 hours per night over the nine-month monitoring period, about 40% of the nights fell outside the ideal range.
"This is crucial because regularly not sleeping enough -- or possibly too much -- are associated with ill effects and we are only just realizing the consequences of irregular sleep," says Flinders University researcher Dr Hannah Scott.
"Clearly getting the recommended sleep duration range frequently is a challenge for many people to achieve, especially during the working week."
Know more: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/2402...

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