'Long Sleepers' Show Higher Dementia Risk

msn.com:

Spanish researchers found that among nearly 3,300 older adults they followed for three years, those who slept nine or more hours per day, daytime naps included, were about twice as likely to develop dementia as those who typically slept for seven hours.

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Comments

[minimalist syntax]

whew. Now I don't have to feel as bad about my 7 hours of sleep a night.

[ForVivi]

Reading too many health studies may lead to confusion.

[ejay579]

I believe this study has a socialist bias.

[Cheapthrills]

Really?? Time for my nap...

[MagicalPossibilities]

The article/study may be a bit misleading. People with a lifelong pattern of sleeping more probably aren't more prone to dementia. The problem is if an older person suddenly starts needing more sleep than he or she used to.
I hope so anyway - I've always needed around 9 hours of sleep...

[piul05]

Probably down to the fact that abnormally long hours of sleep are associated with depression, and depression is associated with dementia?

[Carrie-On]

ANYTHING to keep the nation's "sleep centers" open and raking in the $$$$$. We wonder why we have no "health care reform?"

[ImissBush]

hmmm i kno sum people hu must b reallllly lonnnnnnnnnnnng sleppersss

[rivergirl301]

Did they look at the possibility that people already genetically predisposed to dementia might be the "long sleepers;" really, really early dementia makes people sleep long, and not the other way around?

[Village]

This is such a bunch of silliness. Maybe already confused people need more sleep.

I have always been a long sleeper. I can sleep 12 or 13 hours straight if no one wakes me up. I am almost 60, and have been a long sleeper all my life. I run my own company, exercise daily, and fall asleep like a puppy. On a rainy day, I've been known to sleep 24 hours. And I look 40. Not one winkle. Sleep is restorative. It's ridiculous to think otherwise. I remember my mother letting me sleep as a kid because she said I wouldn't be able to do that when I got old. Boy was she wrong. I have no stress in my life. That is the answer to healthy living.

[sonoffestus]

So, sleep to long you go crazy. Don't get enough sleep you go crazy. I guess the lesson is, everything in moderation.

[sangster]

Come on now, yesterday's story was about short sleepers being prone to Diabetes.

[KIVPossum]

So you have your choice.