Greater amounts of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and deep sleep were associated with lower risks of dozens of diseases, while sleeping fewer than five hours per night was linked to elevated risk across 37 conditions, according to a study published September 17 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine.
The research, led by Shengzhi Sun of Capital Medical University in China and colleagues, analyzed data from 95,559 UK Biobank participants who wore wrist accelerometers for seven consecutive days and nights. Greater REM sleep was associated with lower risk of 83 diseases, including heart failure, dementia and Parkinson’s disease, while greater deep sleep was linked to lower risk of seven conditions, researchers reported.
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