AXIOS January 17, 2024
Most U.S. adults aren’t getting enough sleep.
Why it matters: Experts say sleeping seven or more hours is crucial for your health, but efforts to get more zzz’s can be focused on the wrong things.
By the numbers: Americans get less than six-and-a-half hours a night on average, according to a study that tracked the sleep of Apple Watch users from February to June 2022.
- Although data of Apple users might not reflect the general population, the “fact that we don’t get enough sleep [is] clear across the board,” says Karin Johnson, a sleep medicine specialist and professor of neurology.
In places where it stays lighter later, people tend to stay up and out later.
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