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Good sleep is part of good quality of life. Sleep disturbances are rather common and they reflect various somatic and psychic diseases. Sleep length is associated with mortality. According to several epidemiological surveys short sleepers and long sleepers seem to have poorer life expectancy than those sleeping 7–8h/night [2, 4, 8]. Also myocardial infarctions are more common among those sleeping more than 10 h or less than 6h/night than among those sleeping 7–8h [5].
This study was supported by the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation.
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Urponen, H., Partinen, M., Vuori, I., Hasan, J. (1991). Sleep Quality and Health: Description of the Sleep Quality Index. In: Peter, J.H., Penzel, T., Podszus, T., von Wichert, P. (eds) Sleep and Health Risk. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76034-1_63
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