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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What does any of this have to do with the time change?
Personally, I'd prefer that we eliminate DST and stick with standard time. I want the sun to be highest in the sky at noon all year long.
Moving to a permanent Daylight Savings Time is a de facto moving of the demarcation of time away from Greenwich, England.
-PJ
Only Liberals can be this stupid
Incredible
No please no!
I get so sick of this crap. Sleep apnea is often associated with obesity, so I would be very surprised if Asians had a higher incidence of it than whites, who are more likely to be obese. If for some reason they do, it is not because some white evil genius somehow determined that DST would give some advantage to whites.
No please no!
Since most blacks live in urban areas I can sort of believe this. It might be more relevant to study differences in sleep comparing urban, suburban and rural settings.
OMG!
BS. They use chemicals to straighten because they hate their kinky hair. I would too.
Why can’t they change the categories? Study people who live in noisy, light-polluted, stressful situations vs people who don’t?
They did.
Well, you know what they say...once you go black...you’re a single mom 😉
And I thought sleep disorders were caused by global warming.
I always associated the difficulty in getting to sleep with a guilty conscience.
O.M.G. When will this crap EVER end??
When everything is racist, nothing is racist.
How wonderful is the science that shows this to be so comrade!
I had to look twice and it’s Not the Babylon Bee.
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