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yellowapple on Oct 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Less than 6 hours of sleep a night linked to incre...

And likewise, other factors that can be associated with a short lifespan (hunger, disease, violence, etc.) also tend to disrupt sleep.

jwilliams on Oct 3, 2019 [–]

Yup. It's a pretty strong confound in this interpretations. You could easily flip the Mail Online headline to "People with health issues often sleep poorly".

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