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Latest issueJun 2, 20262215
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Locking in 7–9 hours: the dose–response link between sleep and all‑cause mortality

Large pooled analyses of prospective cohorts show a U‑shaped association between nightly sleep duration and all‑cause mortality, with the lowest risk at roughly 7 hours/night. In a 2022 meta‑analysis of 16 studies including 1.4 million adults followed up to 20 years, sleeping ≤5 hours was linked to about a 15–25% higher all‑cause mortality risk, while ≥9 hours carried a similar… read the full issue →

Locking in 7–9 hours: the dose–response link between sleep and all‑cause mortalityAll evidence here is observational (association, not causation), sleep duration is self‑reported, and short sleep often clusters with other risks (shift work, depression, cardiometabolic disease), so “fixing” sleep alone has not yet been shown in large RCTs to normalize mortality risk.Jun 2, 20262215
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