Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds

Re:Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds by GuB-42 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:52AM (#38098967)

If your sleep tracker is one of these consumer devices that you put on your wrist, they are notoriously unreliable (here is a study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7603649/ ). Worse, they have been shown to cause unnecessary stress by causing people who are actually perfectly fine to chase numbers.

As for how to improve sleep, there are plenty of advise, many of them commonsense (see in this thread). But I think that unless you are actually followed by a healthcare professional, in which case he would probably give better advise than random people on HN, how well you feel the next day is probably a better metric than some number on a smartwatch. And if the answer is "fine", I don't think there is a reason to worry much.

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Re:Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds by evanjrowley on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:01AM (#38099094)

Somewhat ironically, the sleep apnea screening device I was sent is also meant to be worn on the wrist. There were three additional sensors connected to it. One for monitor chest movements for breathing, one for monitoring breath itself, and another for blood oxygen level.

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