Summarized by Masters of Longevity from Science Daily - Health & Medicine.
More REM sleep is the focus of a medical-research article examining links between sleep-stage patterns and future disease risk, inviting readers curious about sleep’s broad health implications.
Key Takeaways
- Higher proportion of REM sleep was associated with lower risk for 83 incident diseases in the cohort.
- Greater deep sleep was specifically linked to reduced risks of type 2 diabetes and major depression.
- The study used accelerometer-derived sleep staging on more than 95,000 UK Biobank participants to assess disease associations.
