From Daily Mail: People who repeatedly suffer from poor sleeping habits could be at greater risk of more than 170 diseases, ranging from gangrene to dementia, a groundbreaking new study suggests.
The research, led by teams from Peking University and the Army Medical University in China, analyzed objective sleep data from 88,460 adults who took part in a nationwide survey run by the UK Biobank platform.
The participants answered over 160 questions about their sleeping habits, including their ability to fall to sleep, their hours of sleep per night, their quality of sleep and associated lifestyle and behaviors.
Researchers found “significant” associations between various sleep traits and 172 diseases, the report says. In fact, for 92 diseases, more than 20 percent of their risk was attributable to poor sleep.
One important takeaway was that falling asleep after 12:30 AM was linked to a 2.6-fold higher risk of liver cirrhosis. Inconsistent sleeping patterns increased the risk of gangrene, death of body tissue, by 2.6 times.
Another 42 diseases had a two-fold risk associated with certain sleep traits, including quality, quantity and consistency of sleep. The risks included Parkinson’s disease, age-related frailty, gangrene, fibrosis, and liver cirrhosis.
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