The importance of a good night's rest 😴⬇️
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Scientists, including Emmanuel Mignot from Stanford University, developed a system using machine learning to predict a person’s “sleep age” and identify variations in sleep most closely linked to mortality. Previous research has documented that sleep is one of the first things that is disturbed in many disorders.
Assessing different features of individuals’ sleep, the new study found that sleep fragmentation, when people briefly wake up several times at night without remembering it, was the “strongest predictor” of mortality.
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