adults between 25 and 64 years of age need an average of 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night.Adults 65 and older need 7 to 8 hours per night. This is based on public health recommendations, but internal and external factors may change the number of hours you need....
The objective was to conduct a scientifically rigorous update to the National Sleep Foundation's sleep duration recommendations. The National Sleep Foundation convened an 18-member multidisciplinary expert panel, representing 12 stakeholder organizations, to evaluate scientific literature concerning sleep durati...
New Sleep Duration Recommendations for Most Age GroupsElizabeth GoughGordon
A common misconception about sleep and aging is that older adults need less of it. The truth is The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends seven to nine hours of sleep each night for adults age 18 and over — and those recommendations don’t change with advanced age. (10) However,...
Short sleep duration has a substantial influence on the overall health of an individual. Short sleep time can be a consequence of lifestyle habits, environmental factors, or the presence of a sleep disorder, such as insomnia or sleep-disordered breathing
Earlier age of puberty has detrimental consequences for many aspects of health. Here, for the first time, we assessed the association of earlier puberty with sleep duration observationally and with validation using Mendelian Randomization. In the “Children of 1997” birth cohort (n = 8,327...
The Panel made sleep duration recommendations for 9 age groups. Sleep duration ranges, expressed as hours of sleep per day, were designated asrecommended, may be appropriate, ornot recommended. Recommended sleep durations are as follows: 14-17 hours for newborns, 12-15 hours for infants, 11-...
consensus. Out of 340 studies screened, 35 studies were included. There were 631,756 participants with an average age of 44.3 combined (SD = 16.5) (53% female and 22% Black). Disparities in sleep health characteristics and cardiometabolic health among African American adults were found. Markers...
Recommendations for a standard research assessment of insomnia. Sleep. 2006;29(9):1155-1173.PubMedGoogle Scholar 54. Fox KC, Nijeboer S, Dixon ML, et al. Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? a systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation ...
One in four people slept less than age-specific recommendations, but only 5.8% slept outside of the ‘acceptable’ sleep duration. Among teenagers, 51.5% reported total sleep times (TST) of less than the recommended 8–10 h and 18% report daytime sleepiness. In adults (≥18 years), ...