ONLY 15% of the population are sleeping the recommended seven-to-nine hours of sleep for five or more nights a week, according to a new Flinders University global study published in Sleep Health.
"This is crucial because regularly not sleeping enough - or possibly too much - is associated with ill effects and we are only just realising the consequences of irregular sleep," said Flinders University researcher Dr Hannah Scott.
"Clearly getting the recommended sleep duration range frequently is a challenge for many people to achieve, especially during the working week," Scott added.
There are several health risks associated with sleeping less than six hours a night on average, or more than nine hours a night, including increased mortality risk, hypertension, obesity and heart disease.
The 68k participants in the study were monitored using an under-mattress sensor which provided sleep tracker data over a nine-month period.
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