— Risk emerged in midlife and persisted at older ages
People who reported sleeping 5 hours or less a night had a higher risk of multiple chronic diseases in the future, a longitudinal study in England showed.
Healthy 50-year-olds who slept 5 or fewer hours a night had a 30% greater risk of future multimorbidity over 25 years compared with those who slept 7 hours (HR 1.30, 95% CI 1.12-1.50, P<0.001), according to Séverine Sabia, PhD, of Université de Paris and University College London, and co-authors. Read more in MedPage Today.