New Delhi. Chinese researchers found in a research that it is very important to have good sleep at night to live a healthy and long life. The team from China’s Wenzhou Medical University defined ‘successful ageing’ as the absence of major long-term diseases such as diabetes, cancer, chronic lung disease, heart disease and stroke, good mental health and no physical disability. Have done. Research suggests maintaining stable and adequate sleep duration may promote healthy aging. In a paper published in the journal BMC Public Health, the team said the findings underscore the critical importance of monitoring dynamic changes in sleep duration in middle-aged and older adults.
In the research, the team analyzed 3,306 participants who were free from major chronic diseases in 2011 and were 60 years of age or older by 2020. The team combined nighttime sleep and daytime naps to calculate total daily sleep hours in 2011, 2013 and 2015. The researchers identified five different sleep durations including normal-stable (26.1 percent of participants), long-stable (26.7 percent), decreasing (7.3 percent), increasing (13.7 percent), and short-stable ( 26.2 percent) was included. People with increased and shorter stable sleep showed significantly lower chances of successful aging.
Decreased odds were also seen in decreased sleep patterns. Overall, only 13.8 percent of people met the definition of successful aging by 2020. The team found that regularly getting too little or too little sleep can hinder successful aging because it can affect physical and psychological health. The team said in the paper that these findings “underscore that persistent sleep loss and patterns of increase and decrease in sleep duration are not simply age-related changes, but rather they serve as key indicators of barriers to successful aging.” Emerge and come to the fore.