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Short-sleepers are more likely to suffer from irregular and heavy periods

Kat Kennedy , University of Arizona and Sara Nowakowski , Baylor College of Medicine The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Menstruating women who sleep less than six hours a night tend to suffer heavier and irregular periods. That is the conclusion from our new study, which was recently published in the Journal of Sleep Research . We found that those who got less than six hours of sleep on average nightly were 44% more likely to ha

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Oct 1, 20213 min read