The JAMA Neurology study found that sleeping six hours or less per night was associated with increased amyloid-beta, a protein that can form brain plaque associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by the peer-reviewed JAMA Neurology study (Winer et al., 2021) and corroborated by multiple independent secondary sources including medical news outlets and academic summaries.
Sources
- How much sleep keeps cognitive decline at bay? - Harvard Health (health.harvard.edu)
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