Golden slumbers: shorter sleep in later life linked with multimorbidity (IMAGE)

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Golden slumbers: shorter sleep in later life linked with multimorbidity

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Researchers find that adults over 50 who sleep for five hours or less per night have a greater risk of developing more than one chronic disease when compared to their peers who sleep seven hours.

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