After
an average sleep loss of approximately 55 minutes for 6 nights, a neurobehavioral test showed that performance of ADHD children worsened from the subclinical to the clinical range of inattention on 4 of 6 measures, which included reaction time and omission errors.
Not exact matches
Before this election, the largest
loss of
sleep experienced by the country happened the night of Super Bowl 50 with a national
average of just 8 minutes lost.
The
average increase of ∼ 5 % (∼ 111 kcal / d or ∼ 464 kJ / d) in 24 - h EE observed during
sleep loss compared with 9 - h control is similar to the energy cost of a 70 - kg adult performing water aerobics for ∼ 24 min.
A 5 - h
sleep opportunity was chosen because: (i) on
average it does not reduce deep slow wave
sleep as does more severe
sleep restriction, (ii) it is a level of
sleep restriction that occurs across a 5 - d work week in many occupations (e.g., military and security operations, emergency responders, and shift workers), and (iii) it is a level of
sleep restriction that is consistent with that used to examine the influence of
sleep loss on metabolism (18, 19, 21, 42).
Employees who get an
average of less than five hours of
sleep a night miss 1.5 times more days of work and have 1.9 times greater productivity
loss than employees who
average eight hours of
sleep a night, according to a 2017 study by StayWell, a research - based health solutions firm.