More Than A Third Of Americans Don't Get Enough Sleep
SIphotography via Getty Images We spend about one-third of our life doing it, but more than one in three Americans still aren’t getting enough sleep, according to a new government report. In their first study of self-reported sleep length, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 34.8 percent of American adults are getting less than seven hours of sleep -- the minimum length of time adults should sleep in order to reduce risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, mental distress, coronary heart disease and early death. In total, an estimated 83.6 million adults in the U.S. are sleep deprived, the CDC report estimates, based on surveys with 444,306 nationally representative participants across 50 states and Washington D.C. That’s 83.6 million sleepy people driving on roads, walking on streets and generally yawning through their lives. Dr. Clete Kushida, medical director of the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center, said more research needs to be done on the racial and educational disparities that may influence sleep, but he speculated that perhaps stress, lack of a regular workday schedule and avoiding treatment for medical conditions due to financial strain could be some reasons why people without jobs report lower rates of healthy sleep. Those populations would have likely increased the proportion of Americans who don’t get enough sleep, the CDC notes, as they are more likely to sleep less due to chronic physical or mental conditions.
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