Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration: a prospective cohort study
Windred DP, Burns AC, Lane JM, et al. · Sleep 47(1):zsad253 · 2024
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In ~60,000 UK Biobank participants, how regular sleep was predicted mortality better than how long it was.
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