Watson et al. 2015 · AASM/SRS
What the source shows
Joint consensus statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and the Sleep Research Society (SRS): a panel of 15 experts reviewed 5,314 scientific articles and voted in a structured process (modified RAND method). Recommendation for adults aged 18 to 60: 7 hours or more per night on a regular basis. Regularly sleeping less than 7 hours is associated with weight gain, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, impaired immune function and more errors and accidents, among others.
What it does not show
Expert consensus, not a study of its own; the risks listed are associations. Whether more than 9 hours is harmful remains open. No statement about stress relief through brushing. The full text on file is the identical parallel publication in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 11(6), 591–592.
What this means for you
Sleep specialists recommend seven hours of sleep or more per night for adults.
- Study
- Recommended Amount of Sleep for a Healthy Adult: A Joint Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society
- Authors
- Watson, Badr, Belenky, Bliwise, Buxton, Buysse, Dinges, Gangwisch, Grandner, Kushida, Malhotra, Martin, Patel, Quan, Tasali
- Year
- 2015
- Journal
- Sleep
- Peer review
- no
- Studied on
- Consensus statement, no original data
Watson, N. F., Badr, M. S., Belenky, G., Bliwise, D. L., Buxton, O. M., Buysse, D., Dinges, D. F., Gangwisch, J., Grandner, M. A., Kushida, C., Malhotra, R. K., Martin, J. L., Patel, S. R., Quan, S. F., & Tasali, E. (2015). Recommended Amount of Sleep for a Healthy Adult: A Joint Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society. Sleep, 38(6), 843–844. DOI: 10.5665/sleep.4716 (PMID 26039963, PMC4434546)
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