China News Network, March 3 (Reporter Zhang Ni) "Staying up late increases the risk of cancer and belongs to Class 18A carcinogens. Sleep is essential for health and is a necessity, not a luxury. On the eve of World Sleep Day, Gao Xuemei, vice president of the Chinese Sleep Research Association and deputy director of the Sleep Medicine Center of Peking University Health Science Center, called on the public to pay attention to sleep health.
"More than 3 million people in China have sleep disorders" and "Young people have become one of the main forces of insomnia"... In recent years, the topic of sleep health has been highly concerned by the public.
On the 17th, on the eve of World Sleep Day, the 2023 "3.21" World Sleep Day China Theme Conference and Large-scale Science Popularization Activity Launching Ceremony jointly hosted by the China Sleep Research Association and Xilinmen Furniture Co., Ltd. was held in Beijing, and the "China Sleep Research Report 2023" was officially released on the same day.
The report is based on the 2022 China Social Mentality Survey Database and analyzes the sleep status of people in 2022. The data shows that in 2022, respondents slept an average of 7.40 hours per night, nearly half of respondents slept less than 8 hours per night, and 16.79% slept less than 7 hours per night. The "Report" believes that in terms of the sleep status of different groups, the sleep duration of the people needs to be increased, and the self-assessment of sleep quality needs to be improved.
"Sleep plays an important role in metabolic regulation, emotional control, behavioral performance, memory consolidation, brain recovery processes, and learning."
Gao Xuemei said at the meeting that for adults, they should sleep about 7 hours regularly every night to promote optimal health. Staying up late increases the risk of cancer and belongs to class 2A carcinogens.
She said studies have found that in terms of cancer incidence, women who sleep less than 7 hours per night are 47% higher than women who are active and sleep more often; In addition, studies have shown that sleeping less than 6 hours a night for just three consecutive days is enough to lead to a significant deterioration in physical and mental health.
At the press conference, Huang Zhili, chairman of the Chinese Sleep Research Association, released the Chinese theme of this year's World Sleep Day - "Good Sleep, the Source of Health".
Huang Zhili said that the release of the theme of World Sleep Day China has laid a good social foundation for the specific implementation of the "Healthy China 2030" planning outline, greatly enriched the public's knowledge of sleep science and the cognition of healthy sleep, and greatly improved the quality of national science.
For the theme of this release, Gao Xuemei explained that healthy sleep is closely related to everyone's life, and the quality of sleep directly affects people's quality of life and happiness index. Good sleep has the functions of replenishing human energy, enhancing self-resistance, promoting normal metabolism and growth and development of the human body, and making the body and spirit fully rested.
On the same day, the conference also held the launch ceremony of "Sleep Technology Standardization Training Course" and "Expert Consensus on Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Daytime Excessive Sleepiness". Pi Weiwei, Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Sleep Research Association, introduced the science popularization activities of the Chinese Sleep Research Association in 2022 and the focus of science popularization in 2023. (End)