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"Long Sleepers" Show Higher Dementia Risk
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How could something that feels so good - a long night's sleep - have negative consequences? Unfortunately, that is one possibility that results of a new study suggest: Older adults who sleep nine or more hours each day may have a higher risk of developing dementia than those who spend fewer hours in bed.
Spanish researchers found that among nearly 3,300 older adults they followed for three years, those who slept nine or more hours per day, daytime naps included, were about twice as likely to develop dementia as those who typically slept for seven hours.
These "long sleepers" were at increased risk even when the researchers accounted for several factors that can affect both sleep and dementia risk -- including age, education, and smoking and drinking habits.
Still, the findings show only an association between longer sleep and dementia, and do not prove that extra hours in bed, per se, contribute to mental decline.
"It remains to be established how the relation between longer sleep duration and dementia is mediated," Dr. Julian Benito-Leon, of University Hospital '12 de Octubre' in Madrid, told Reuters Health in an email.
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There are other studies that say sleeping is a huge factor in the aging process and general health. Most people don't get enough sleep... If you wake up to an alarm, you obviously haven't slept enough... 5 days out of 7 an alarm wakes me up...

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There are other studies that say sleeping is a huge factor in the aging process and general health. Most people don't get enough sleep... If you wake up to an alarm, you obviously haven't slept enough... 5 days out of 7 an alarm wakes me up...

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The alarm wakes me about once every 3 months. I usually only sleep about 5 hours. I wake up around 5 am every day.
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There are other studies that say sleeping is a huge factor in the aging process and general health. Most people don't get enough sleep... If you wake up to an alarm, you obviously haven't slept enough... 5 days out of 7 an alarm wakes me up...

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I agree, on some mornings i wake up on my own, those days i usually feel GREAT all day long, some days i'll just sleep right through the alarm.. I try getting to bed around the same time each night but i guess it just depends on the actual quality of sleep that im getting.. Not sure. In most cases i slept better in my truck than i did in my bed at home!
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So with the HOS, they are forcing us to possibly get dementia? LOL!
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So with the HOS, they are forcing us to possibly get dementia? LOL!


Only if you can sleep for 10hrs, I cannot! I would toss ans turn to much to sleep that long!
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So with the HOS, they are forcing us to possibly get dementia? LOL!

How so?

You do not have to sleep the whole time.
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Just making a joke... geez.
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Just making a joke... geez.

Believe me, I know some that do sleep that long and have thought they were supposed to be when they were on break.
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Believe me, I know some that do sleep that long and have thought they were supposed to be when they were on break.
After years of averaging 6 hrs nightly.....I'm lucky to sleep that long in the sleeper now.....
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