Negative health outcomes in long sleepers: The societal sleep restriction hypothesis

Society imposes work and school schedules, as well as social expectations, that militate against consistently obtaining more than 7–9 h of sleep every 24 h. For most but not all adults this sleep duration is adequate. But among those who consistently obtain more than 9 h of sleep per day (“long slee...

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Published in:Sleep medicine reviews 2024-10, Vol.77, p.101968, Article 101968
Main Authors: Balkin, Thomas J., Simonelli, Guido, Riedy, Samantha
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Health outcomes
Long sleep
Sleep requirement
U-shaped function
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Summary:Society imposes work and school schedules, as well as social expectations, that militate against consistently obtaining more than 7–9 h of sleep every 24 h. For most but not all adults this sleep duration is adequate. But among those who consistently obtain more than 9 h of sleep per day (“long sleepers”), there likely exists a subpopulation of individuals who are nevertheless failing to obtain enough sleep to satisfy their physiological sleep needs – a consequence of “restricting” their daily sleep durations to whatever extent they can tolerate so as to conform as closely as possible to society's norms and expectations. It is hypothesized that the ‘long sleep arm’ of the seemingly paradoxical U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and negative health outcomes can be explained, at least in part, by the existence of a subpopulation of such ‘sleep-restricted long sleepers.’
ISSN:1087-0792
1532-2955
1532-2955
DOI:10.1016/j.smrv.2024.101968