I'm tracking the sleep on my iPhone by pushing the Fitbit data to Apple's Health app via a third party app called Sync Solver, and now I'm working to increase
my average sleep duration to above 6 hours.
I started 2015 with
an average sleep duration of around 5:15, but I've been slowly getting my score up so that now I'm around 5:50.
His average sleep duration was reported as 7 hours and 45 minutes, but he stated feeling pressured to ensure that his tracker would display at least 8 hours every night.
Women with longer
average sleep duration said they had better genital arousal than women with shorter sleep time.
Their average sleep duration was assessed through a variety of methods, from questionnaires to wearable technology.
We can only speculate about why those with shorter
average sleep duration were more likely to develop calcification of the coronary arteries.»
«Although sleep scientists have generally accepted that
the average sleep duration of Americans has been declining in parallel with our transformation to a frenetic 24 - hour society,» Quan wrote, «most sleep clinicians would consider those values indicative of sleep deprivation even by current standards.»
By the time the twins had been home for eight weeks,
average sleep duration had only improved marginally to 5.6 hours daily, although this was achieved in fewer sleep episodes lasting an average of 31.8 minutes each.
«And they may not apply to people with
average sleep durations.»
Not exact matches
Other life - threatening medical conditions may cause people to
sleep longer or shorter than
average, resulting in a correlation between long
sleep duration and mortality.
Laboratory studies reveal that the
average duration of infant and maternal awakenings in the cosleeping environment are shorter on
average than the awakenings mothers and babies experience when baby awakens in another room, and requires intervention before going back to
sleep (see Mosko et al 1997).
Babies arouse more frequently, but for shorter
average durations than if the baby
slept apart - and spend less time in deeper stages of
sleep which may not be beneficial for babies with arousal deficiencies - as also shown in recently published refereed articles.
But it appears that many healthy, normal newborns deviate several hours from the
average duration of
sleep.
Studies have shown that each person has different needs when it comes to
sleep duration, but as a general recommendation, it's been concluded that the optimal amount for the
average person is seven to nine hours per day.