US researchers recommend that you do not exceed or fall short of a certain length of sleep, depending on your age.
Find out here how much sleep is considered healthy for your age.
Are you more of a late riser or does it drive you up early in the morning?
Many factors determine how our sleep is going.
For example, habit, stress and disposition play an essential role in how long and how well we can sleep.
Sufficient and above all high quality sleep is important for our body because it regenerates during this time.
If you sleep too little, you are more susceptible to colds, for example,
as the hkk health insurance company informs you.
According to an hkk report, a study by the University of California at San Francisco showed that if you had an average of less than six hours of sleep for a week, you are four times more susceptible to the common cold virus.
And the length of sleep also has an enormous influence on blood pressure.
According to the results of an international team of researchers, late risers are more likely to have high blood pressure than short sleepers.
For their study, the scientists led by Salim Yusuf from the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, compared the data from 116,632 people from 21 countries and came to the conclusion
that six to eight hours of sleep per night is the best for our heart
.
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Not too much and not too little sleep: this is how many hours it should be, depending on your age
The need for sleep varies depending on the age.
It is popularly said that as you get older you need less sleep.
Researchers at the US National Sleep Foundation have scientifically tested this.
In a publication, the scientists give recommendations as to which length of sleep is best depending on age
.
The study states: “The requirements for a sufficient length of sleep vary over the entire lifespan and from person to person.
The recommendations given here are guidelines for healthy people and those who do not suffer from a sleep disorder. (...) People who habitually sleep outside of the normal range may show signs or symptoms of serious health problems or at risk if they voluntarily do so do their health and well-being ”.
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The sleep recommendations of the National Sleep Foundation according to age at a glance:
Newborns (0 to 3 months): between 14 and 17 hours of sleep per night
Infants (4 to 11 months): between 12 and 15 hours of sleep per night
Infants (12 months to 2 years): between 11 and 14 hours of sleep per night
Pre-school children (3 to 5 years old): between 10 and 13 hours of sleep per night
School-age children (6 to 13 years old): between 9 and 11 hours of sleep per night
Teenagers (14 to 17 years old): between 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night
Twens (18 to 25 years): between 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night
Young adults and adults (26 to 65 years old): between 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night
Seniors (older than 65 years): between 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night
More sources: https://www.hkk.de/themen/schlafen/schlafmangel-schadet-koerperabwehr;
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/40/20/1620/5229545
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