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Re:Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death by marmaduke on Friday November 16, 2018 @04:12PM (#18472003)
The abstract doesn’t say anything really, only that a meta analysis of existing studies reject null hypotheses that insomnia is linked to death. This isn’t really that useful, and digging deeper requires looking into the details of the studies. When all those results are pooled together, it only takes one bad study to skew the meta analysis.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S108707921...

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Re:Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death by AlexCoventry on Friday November 16, 2018 @07:17PM (#18473028)
I think the null hypothesis is that insomnia is uncorrelated with mortality, and the meta analysis failed to reject it.
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