Study Warns Against Sleeping More Than 9 Hours Daily
Long-term research links excessive sleep to higher mortality rates compared to 7-8 hours.
A long-term study has found that sleeping more than 9 hours per night was linked to higher mortality rates compared to sleeping between 7 and 8 hours.
The findings suggest that longer sleep is not always better for health, contradicting a common belief that increasing sleep duration is beneficial.
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