Sleep Disorder or Chronic Insomnia in Men May Result in Premature Death

A group of researchers from Penn State College of Medicine, Pennsylvania discovered that nocturnal men or men who sleep for very short time has four times greater risk of premature death as opposed to those who regularly get a proper night’s sleep. Researchers also concluded that women can cope with a lack of sleep far better than their male counterparts, as insomnia proved to have little effect on their life expectancy.

The latest research that has been published in the journal SLEEP highlights that insomnia is a “serious disease with significant physical consequences, including mortality,” said Alexandros N. Vgontzas, head researcher and director of Penn State University’s Sleep Research & Treatment Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The study clearly found that chronic insomnia in men could mean premature death.

Additionally, aside from the early death, the study shows that people who do not get enough sleep will likely suffer from long term health problems.

“The primary finding of our study is that insomnia, the most common sleep disorder, is associated with significant mortality in men,” Dr Vgontzas said.

However, Dr Vgontzas said in an interview with reporters that: “Until now, no study has demonstrated that insomnia is associated with mortality.”

Researchers based their study at the sleep patterns of 1,000 women and 741 men during their experiments.

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