PTo live well, you must sleep well. So far, no wonder, it’s a common assertion. Except that according to Frank Qian, a clinician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, UNITED STATES, We must go further. According to his studies, the quality of sleep should be favored over the quantity. He established the five factors guaranteeing a good sleep, which he explained to the Guardian “You should sleep between seven and eight hours a night, not be prone to insomnia more than twice a week, not have trouble falling asleep more than twice a week, not use sleeping pills and feeling rested following waking up at least five days a week. »
To reach such conclusions, the researcher and his team analyzed sleep data from 172,321 people, aged around fifty on average, for just over four years. During this period, 8,681 people in the survey died. The study, which will be presented in detail at the beginning of March, is categorical: people combining the five factors of quality sleep “were 30% less likely to die from all causes combined, 21% less likely to succumbing to cardiovascular disease and 19% less dying of cancer”.
“I think these results highlight that getting enough hours of sleep is not enough. You really need to have a restful sleep and not have too much trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. If the ge […] Read more