Short sleep

Intervention1 paper2 findings

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Blood pressure and arterial stiffness

mixedin humans1Low certainty

1 study
  1. Short sleep is associated with blood pressure and arterial stiffness in humans.

    Humanshealthy adults; compared with a fixed short-sleep thresholdpersonalized thresholds anchored to individual sleep-duration distributionsproportion of personalized short-sleep nightsn = 462

    Individual short-sleep definitions show stronger health links · Sleep medicine · 30 Sep 2026

Short-term subjective, cardiovascular and physical activity outcomes

mixedin humans1Low certainty

1 study
  1. Short sleep is associated with short-term subjective, cardiovascular and physical activity outcomes in humans.

    Humanshealthy adults; compared with a fixed short-sleep thresholdpersonalized thresholds anchored to individual sleep-duration distributionsn = 462

    Individual short-sleep definitions show stronger health links · Sleep medicine · 30 Sep 2026

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Individual short-sleep definitions show stronger health links

An observational study followed 462 healthy adults for a year, finding stronger health links using individual sleep cut-offs than a fixed six-hour…An observational study followed 462 healthy adults for a year, finding stronger health links using individual sleep cut-offs than a fixed six-hour limit.