Provocative New Insights From the Largest Consumer Sleep Study Ever Released
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, I was thrilled to be part of a historic presentation - we revealed the results of what will be the largest and most accurate at-home sleep study ever undertaken. I did this as part of an inaugural effort for a brand new company I co-founded with the best sleep tracking device: SleepScore Labs, a joint venture with the medical sleep device market leader ResMed (NYSE: RMD) and Pegasus Capital Ventures. I am devoting my energy to helping people sleep better for a few reasons. First, sleep has an enormous and under-appreciated impact on our overall health, and as a doctor I have seen firsthand its harmful effect on my patients, including seemingly unrelated issues like heart failure and hypertension. Second, after facilitating our national conversation on health for almost 8 years on my show, I find sleep to be the leading unexpected question on people's minds. And lastly and most importantly, as we learned in the survey, America is drastically and dangerously sleep deprived; we learned that 79% of people do not get the recommended seven hours of sleep!
We launched this program in October of 2016 to foster better public understanding of sleep health and gather high quality data on how people sleep in the supposed comfort of their own homes. 20,000 individuals have enrolled in the continuing study, which so far has collected more than 1.53 million night's worth of consumer sleep data.
How We Conducted The Study
Participants were self-sele...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
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