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Can Sleep Be Bad For You? Can Insomnia Be Good?
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59:137-138.
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DESPITE GREAT strides in our understanding of sleep and its disorders,
we do not have answers to the most fundamental questions: Why do we sleep?
How much sleep do we need? Prolonged sleep deprivation in rats ultimately
leads to irreversible metabolic and immunologic effects, then death.1 While similar experiments cannot be conducted in humans,
self-reports may provide clues to the effects of sleep. In this issue of the
ARCHIVES, Kripke and colleagues2 report analyses
from a large epidemiological study that assessed, among other things, self-reported
sleep duration and insomnia. Using 6-year follow-up data, the authors analyzed
associations between sleep duration and insomnia, and mortality. Both short
and long sleep durations were associated with increased mortality, and insomnia
with reduced mortality. These findings raise provocative questions: Can sleep
be bad for your health? Can insomnia be good?
The study has several strengths, including a sample size of more than
1.1 million, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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