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In 2002, Daniel Kripke, co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, Calif. compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults who, as part of a study on cancer prevention, reported their average nightly amount of sleep.
Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, as they report, live the longest. And people who sleep 8 hours or more, or less than 6.5 hours, they don’t live quite as long.
There is just as much risk associated with sleeping too long as with sleeping too short.
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