Sleeping Too Much Is Dangerous For You – Scientists Say

Clement Ejiofor,

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Unexpectedly, but sleeping too much could be even more dangerous than the lack of sleep.

British scientists analysed 16 studies including sleep data for more than a million people and came to conclusion that oversleeping is as dangerous or even more dangerous than sleep deprivation. They claim that the mortality of people depends on how much they slept as there is a direct correlation.

According to the results of long-term studies, people who sleep more than eight hours are at risk of dying earlier than those who sleep for six to eight hours. After ten years, 12% of people who slept less than six hours had died – but 30% of those who slept more than eight hours had died.

The leading researcher Professor Franco Cappuccio corrected the data to account for people who are depressed, or using sleep medication – and believes that people who sleep more than eight hours per night may have a serious underlying illness which is causing them to sleep longer.