You may already know that how you sleep can affect how you age – getting fewer than six hours a night has been associated with faster ageing and a higher risk of “all-cause mortality”.
Poor sleep, particularly in midlife, is linked to a greater likelihood of developing dementia.
But what does “bad” sleep really mean?
A new paper published in the journal Alzheimer’s and Dementia has used data from over 23,000 middle-aged and older adults to work out “three sleep behaviors distinctly associated with a marker of brain ageing in healthy people”.
These were found from a list of five sleep behaviours measured in the study.
Which sleep habits have been linked to brain ageing?
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