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Recommended Amount of Sleep for a Healthy Adult: A Joint Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society

N Watson, M Badr, G Belenky, D Bliwise, O Buxton, D Buysse et al.. SLEEP. 2015.

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In plain language

AASM and SRS recommend that adults regularly sleep 7 or more hours per night.

Limits

Consensus, not a trial.

Source

doi.org/10.5665/sleep.4716 · PubMed 26039963 · Free full text

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