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Stroke Risk Spikes In Healthy Adults Who Don't Get Enough Sleep

Posted by timothy on from the use-this-fact-in-salary-negotiations dept.

hessian writes "Attention, busy middle-aged folks. You may be healthy and thin, but if you habitually sleep less than six hours a night, you still could be boosting your risk of a stroke. That's the surprising conclusion of a new study being presented Monday at SLEEP 2012, the annual meeting of the nation's sleep experts."

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  1. Re:Damn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The increased stroke risk ONLY OCCURRED IN NORMALLY SIZED PATIENTS

    Never mind all that. The real gem is this:

    those who reported sleeping less than six hours a night were at about 4.5 times greater risk of developing stroke symptoms...

    So they didn't actually measure how much sleep the subjects got. They just took their word on it. Given that some people will overestimate or underestimate their sleep, this could just mean that the people who tend to underreport their sleep are the same people who tend to have strokes.

    Basically, the study is useless.