Posted on 11/26/2022 9:32:07 AM PST by thegagline
As the United States rolled back the clocks one hour this month to observe the end of Daylight Saving Time, many people got a bit more sleep than usual – but some not as much as others.
Growing evidence shows that lack of sleep and sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, remain more prevalent in Black, Asian, and Hispanic or Latino communities, and these inequities can have long-term detrimental implications for physical health, even raising the risk of certain chronic diseases.
*** Now, some sleep researchers worry about the potential effects that continuing to change standard time twice each year may have on sleep health inequities.
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As for the inequities seen in sleep health, it’s not that White adults don’t also experience a lack of sleep and its health consequences – but people of color appear to disproportionately experience them more, and that’s believed to be largely due to social systems in the United States.
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Yet the racial and ethnic disparities in sleep duration appear to be getting worse across the United States, *** [A] study, published in April in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, found that among more than 400,000 adults in the US, between 2004 and 2018, the prevalence of short and long sleep duration was persistently higher among those who were Black and Hispanic or Latino. Short sleep is less than seven hours in a day, and long sleep is more than nine hours.
*** “Among those are housing conditions, noise pollution, light pollution, air pollution, stress from different sources – including perceived racial discrimination – and jobs or working conditions,” he said, adding that the convergence of all those factors may explain why getting the recommended amount of sleep “may be less common among Black adults than among White adults.”
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Ditto. Usually the MSM requires a solid three writers to come up with their truly monumental idiocies. This joker must have put in some overtime
Finishing your homework and carjackings by 8 will let you get to bed by 10.
Well i could not sleep to well if i knew my own kind wants to steal from me beat and kill me at the drop of a hat
“ Growing evidence shows that lack of sleep and sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, remain more prevalent in Black, Asian, and Hispanic or Latino communities, and these inequities can have long-term detrimental implications for physical health, even raising the risk of certain chronic diseases.”
She’s 100% correct about blacks and Hispanics, not Asians though, but it is totally due to anatomy and life style. Period!
LEAVE THE DAMN CLOCK ALONE.
It’s called STANDARD time because this is what it is SUPPOSED to be, the STANDARD, the NORM.
The Progressives are increasingly Anti-American; am I wrong?
Women and minorities hit especially hard!
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