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In a study released Monday in Preventive Medicine, researchers looked at how 3,104 teens ages 13 to 17 slept.

B次元官网网址淪urprisingly, we found no relationship between poor health outcomes and those who chronically had less than eight hours sleep a night,B次元官网网址� study author Annalijn Conklin said.

The study found that teens who had trouble falling or staying asleep B次元官网网址� even just one night a week B次元官网网址� were more than two times likely to report poorer health than teens who fell asleep easily.

Conklin, a scientist with the Centre for Health Evaluations and Outcome Sciences, said she looked into sleep because she found it largely overlooked in discussions about health that focused on diet and exercise.

B次元官网网址淲hat was particularly interesting was that the relationship between chronic, poor-quality sleep and health outcome was stronger in the boys than it was in the girls,B次元官网网址� she said.

Conklin said that although the study couldnB次元官网网址檛 be used to imply causation, B次元官网网址渋t shows that thereB次元官网网址檚 definitely a link between poor health and chronic poor-quality sleep, which may be gender specific.B次元官网网址�

She said that although this study looked only at sleep habits, earlier studies on caffeine and screen time before bed meant enforcing sleep schedules and placing restrictions on screen time would likely improve teensB次元官网网址� health.

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