PLOS Medicine · 17 September 2026 · From issue 39
Accelerometer-derived real-world sleep stages and risk of incident diseases: A UK Biobank cohort study and phenome-wide association analysis
More REM and deep sleep tied to lower risk for dozens of diseases in adults.
Jingsong Luo, Ruiyi Liu et al.
Sleep tracked by wristband devices links closely to future disease risk in a large group of adults. People who got more REM sleep and more deep sleep had lower risk for many diseases. People who slept less than 5 hours a night had the most health problems. Sleeping 6 to 8 hours a night was tied to the lowest disease risk overall.
The number of diseases linked to differences in sleep stages, duration, or irregularity in this study.
Observational study of 95,559 people, no proof sleep causes disease risk.
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