William Atkins
Saturday, 31 October 2009 22:12
Science -
Health
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The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by the team headed by Dr. McKnight-Eily also concluded other findings.
Some of these other findings were:
• The report also found that 17% of adults reported that didn’t get enough sleep half of the nights within the previous month.
• On the other side, only 31% of the adults reported getting sufficient sleep every night over the past month.
• Women reported getting less sleep than men. Women reported not getting enough sleep 12.4% of the time, while men reported insufficient sleep 9.9% of the time.
• People 65 years or older reported the highest percentage of enough sleep every night during the month—at 57%. Only 7% of seniors reported insufficient sleep every night for the month.
• People 25 to 34 years reported the lowest percentage of having every night during the month with sufficient sleep—at 22%. They reported 14% of insufficient sleep every night during the month.
Dr. McKnight-Eily stated in the CDC report,
“The importance of chronic sleep insufficiency is under-recognized as a public health problem, despite being associated with numerous physical and mental health problems, injury, loss of productivity, and mortality.”
Page three concludes with statistics on sleeplessness in different regions and states of the country.
