Chinanews.com, Beijing, April 21 (Reporter Sun Zifa) People in middle age, ensuring enough sleep is also an important part of protecting health.

Springer Nature’s international academic journal "Nature-Communications" recently published a new health study. Through a follow-up survey of nearly 8,000 British adults for more than 30 years, it was found that middle-aged people often sleep less than 6 hours a night. A higher risk of dementia is related.

　　The research paper states that these findings cannot establish a causal link, but indicate a link between sleep duration and the risk of dementia.

It also shows that sleep may be important for middle-aged brain health.

Future research may determine whether improving sleep habits can help prevent dementia.

　　According to reports, about 10 million new cases of dementia/dementia are reported every year worldwide, and one of the common symptoms is sleep changes.

However, more and more evidence shows that the sleep pattern before the onset of dementia may promote the disease.

The sleep time of the elderly (65 years and older) is associated with the risk of dementia, but it was previously unclear whether this association is also true in younger people.

　　Corresponding author of the latest research paper, Séverine Sabia (Séverine Sabia) and colleagues of the French National Institute of Health and Medicine, through the analysis of the Whitehall II study (also known as the "stress and health" study) by the University College of the United Kingdom (UCL) Data and research investigated the health status of 7,959 British adults since 1985.

Participants self-reported their sleep duration, and some would wear a watch accelerometer overnight to confirm that the duration estimate is accurate.

　　This study shows that at the age of 50 or 60, people who sleep less than 6 hours a night have a higher risk of developing dementia.

The study also found that people who have been in a shorter sleep pattern from middle to old age (between the ages of 50 and 70) have a 30% increase in the risk of dementia, and this is related to cardiovascular and metabolic or mental health problems (known risk of dementia) Factor) irrelevant.

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