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4 HEALTH AND LABORATORY MAGAZINE

THIS SLEEP HABIT COULD BE SILENTLY

THREATENING YOUR HEALTH

New research shows that average of 6.8 years. The number of awakenings are sleep time. and Comparison with
not only the amount of findings reveal that poor represented by circular Subjective Sleep Traits in
sleep but also irregular sleep habits account for icons surrounding the Professor Shengfeng 88,461 Adults”
sleep patterns may more than 20% of the risk human body. Statistically, Wang, the senior author of
significantly increase the for 92 diseases. sleep-related traits the study, stated: By Wang Yimeng, Wen
risk of numerous diseases. account for an average Qiaorui, Luo Siwen, Tang
Sleeping After 12:30 AM of 23.01% of the disease “Our findings highlight Lijuan, Zhan Siyan, Cao Jia,
According to a Increases Cirrhosis Risk burden in the affected the often-overlooked Shengfeng Wang, and Qing
comprehensive 2.5 Times disease categories. importance of sleep Chen
international study regularity. It’s no longer
published in Health Data One of the study’s most Rethinking “Long Sleep”: sufficient to define good Health Data Science, June
Science, irregular sleep striking findings is that Challenging Popular sleep by duration alone.” 3, 2025
patterns may be linked going to bed after 12:30 Misconceptions
to 172 different diseases. a.m. raises the risk of liver The research team DOI: 10.34133/hds.0161
By analyzing objective cirrhosis by 2.57 times. The research also confirmed these
sleep data from 88,461 Additionally, low interdaily challenges a widely held associations in U.S.
adults in the UK Biobank, stability—a marker of belief: that sleeping for populations as well and
researchers found that disrupted sleep-wake long periods (≥9 hours) is pointed to inflammatory
consistent sleep routines— rhythms—was linked to a inherently harmful. While pathways as a possible
particularly stable 2.61 times greater risk of subjective reports have biological mechanism.
bedtimes and biological developing gangrene. associated long sleep with Future studies will explore
rhythms (circadian cycles)— stroke and heart disease, whether these sleep
play a far more critical role These results show that objective measurements patterns are a direct cause
in long-term health than it’s not just how much we found this link in only one of disease and evaluate
previously assumed. sleep, but when and how disease. how interventions targeting
regularly we sleep that sleep regulation may
Led by scientists from can have serious health This discrepancy is likely impact chronic health
Peking University and the consequences. due to misclassification: conditions.
Army Medical University 21.67% of so-called “long
in China, the study In the study’s visual models, sleepers” actually slept less Reference: “Phenome-
monitored participants sleep characteristics such than six hours—indicating wide Analysis of Diseases
using actigraphy (motion- as sleep duration, onset that time spent in bed is in Relation to Objectively
tracking devices) over an timing, efficiency, and often mistaken for actual Measured Sleep Traits