Key Points
A team of Chinese researchers found that healthy and successful ageing is determined by sleep patterns...
The team from Wenzhou Medical University in China defined successful ageing, as the absence of major chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, chronic lung diseases, heart disease, and stroke; having good cognitive and mental health; and with no physical impairments...
The study called for maintaining stable and adequate sleep durations to promote healthy ageing...
The team found that regular shorter and longer sleep durations may hamper successful ageing, as it can disrupt physiological and psychological well-being...
These findings underscore that chronic sleep deprivation, as well as the patterns of increasing and decreasing sleep duration, are not mere age-related changes; rather, they emerge as pivotal indicators of obstacles in the pursuit of successful ageing, the team said in the paper..
