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Insufficient sleep might push you earlier into grave; may be this is true but do you know that sleeping excessively may also lull you forever!

Facts, fuelling up such assertion come from the study conducted by researchers from the University of Warwick, and University College London. As per the findings of this study, no doubt, insufficient sleep doubles the risk of death form cardiovascular disease but excessive sleep also doubles the risk of death from non-cardiovascular diseases.

This is true that like previous studies, this study also reconfirms the fact that insufficient sleep shoots up vulnerability to death. However, what it brings out distinctively is the fact that individuals enjoying excessive sleep of more than 8 hours, were more likely to die of non-cardiovascular diseases. Somewhere this study seems to be propping the earlier studies, which had come out in favor of less sleep:

Long sleepers might embrace death earlier

Less Sleep Linked To Longer Life

No doubt, these findings put forth serious issue for discussion, however, in the present scenario; relevance of the latest one sounds trivial with majority of population suffering from sleeping disorders around the globe and trying to grope out new methods in hope of getting better sleep. Moreover, sleeping disorders are posing serious threat to our human kind both mentally as well as physically. Have a glimpse:

Decreased Performance and Alertness: Sleep deprivation induces significant reductions in performance and alertness. Reducing your nighttime sleep by as little as one and a half hours for just one night could result in a reduction of daytime alertness by as much as 32%.

Memory and Cognitive Impairment: Decreased alertness and excessive daytime sleepiness impair your memory and your cognitive ability — your ability to think and process information.

Stress Relationships: Disruption of a bed partner’s sleep due to a sleep disorder may cause significant problems for the relationship (for example, separate bedrooms, conflicts, moodiness, etc.).

Poor Quality of Life: You might, for example, be unable to participate in certain activities that require sustained attention, like going to the movies, seeing your child in a school play, or watching a favorite TV show

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