Comments on: Best news I’ve had all day (or night)

By: LemonDrop

LemonDrop — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:07:15 +0000

I’m sorry but I’ll keep my Ambien CR. Better living thru chemistry, ya know…

By: Barry Dauphin

Barry Dauphin — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:37:43 +0000

Sleep Duration as a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality: Results of the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study The study involved 104,010 subjects in Japan . All subjects reported their average sleep duration during the week at baseline and then were followed for an average of 10 years. A strength of this study was that the researchers measured perceived mental stress as a potential covariate of mortality and sleep duration. The researchers also adjusted for many other factors known to be associated with mortality such as smoking, alcohol use, physical activity, marital status, and education. They found that the average reported sleep duration was between 7 and 7.5 hours for men and women. The highest mortality rate was found in people who slept 10+ hours, followed by those who slept less than four hours, then those who slept 9 hours, and finally those who slept 5 hours. When the researchers adjusted of mental stress, the relationship between elevated mortality and sleeping less than 7 hours disappeared in men (meaning that elevated death rate for those who slept 4 or 5 hours per night was due to mental stress and not shortened sleep) and in women sleeping between and 4 and 7 hours. Roger, weren't you in Japan last year? Oh, science--always giving us contradictory studies. It's enough to make you lose sleep.

By: triticale

triticale — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:20:57 +0000

It isn’t three score and ten which you are allotted, but X number of hours of sleep. Once you have slept that many hours, time’s up.

Not my theory; that of a former supervisor’s sister’s boyfriend.

But seriously, does midday napping count?

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:02:02 +0000

yeh–you may or may not live longer, but either way it’ll sure seem longer.
\:-)

By: Wallace

Wallace — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:37:51 +0000

Yes those people who only get 5-6 hour may live a tad longer, but they’re very, very tired when they finally succumb.

By: CraigC

CraigC — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:58:39 +0000

A six-year study Kripke headed up of more than a million adults ages 30 to 102 showed that people who get only 6 to 7 hours a night have a lower death rate than those who get 8 hours of sleep.

Lower than 100%?

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:27:25 +0000

I feel like Lloyd Bridges in “Airplane!” — “I picked a helluva time to quit amphetamines.”

By: Skookumchuk

Skookumchuk — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:48:13 +0000

Oh wait. I guess it’s just the red wine, then.

By: Skookumchuk

Skookumchuk — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:45:21 +0000

Yes! As one who is in bed at ten and up by 5:30, such wonderful news fitting all my preconceptions simply must be true. Actually, insomnia and red wine virtually assures immortality.