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....
Nocturiais the medical term for waking up multiple times per night to go to the bathroom. It’s estimated that 50 million people in the U.S. have nocturia, and as much as 24 percent of adults over age 65 will have two or more episodes of nocturia each night. (19) Beyond the nuisanc...
Although boys showed earlier wake times and shorter nighttime sleep than girls at all ages, boys did not show a shorter total sleep than girls until the age of 4 years, after which the majority of children began the single-phasic sleep/wake pattern. At all ages, a considerable proportion ...
Although a causal relationship between short sleep duration and cardiovascular risk is not confirmed, most of the data indicate a strong link between short sleep times and diabetes mellitus, obesity, and cardiovascular disorders. Physicians should consider sleep to be a modifiable risk factor for healt...
Moreover, as we age,theamount of sleep we need decreases, along with the time spent in these lighter sleep cycles. For example, by the time we reach three years of age, 33 percent of our sleep is considered light. When we reach 13 years old, only 20 percent of our sleeping time is...
Classically the human life-course is characterized by youth, middle age and old age. A wide range of biological, health and cognitive functions vary across this life-course. Here, using reported sleep duration from 730,187 participants across 63 countries, we find three distinct phases in the ...
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“Race and ethnicity should be explored in similar studies to determine their contribution to sleep time requirements, sleep-related genetics, and cognitive consequences of short and long sleep times,” Margarita Oks, a critical care pulmonologist and sleep expert at Lenox Hill Hospital who was not...
(0:54) have the latest average bedtimes during school days and non-school days. In 15 countries, boys on average sleep longer than girls during school days (the difference is small, of less than 10 minutes). During non-school days, in every country surveyed, on average, girls sleep ...
The publication explicitly considers digital technology as a powerful “new drug”, referring to national statistics suggesting that 78% of Americans between 18 and 24 years of age use social media, online dating, video games, online pornography, and other personal digital technology multiple times ...