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New study ties sleep to array of health problems

MIKE STOBBE

The Associated Press

Latest comment posted at 9:41 AM EDT 08/05/08

Short sleepers smoke, drink more; oversleepers tend to inactivity ...Read the full article

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  1. W ho from Canada writes: Reading this article put me to sleep
  2. Yvonne Wackernagel from Woodville, Canada writes: I hope they didn't get paid for this study, because I, alone, know dozens of people who sleep poorly and do not smoke or drink.
  3. ali mansur from Etobicoke, Canada writes: This article is beyong ridicule. Clearly the study, (and the medium in which it has been reprinted) has confused cause and effect.

    Next thing you'll hear is that whitening your teeth makes you a non-smoker. And causing a major car crash makes you drunk.
  4. Mr X from Canada writes: Perhaps obese people don't sleep well.
  5. Frank Smith from Ontario, Canada writes: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  6. Shane Mason from Canada writes: Hey Frank, W ho: It was interesting enough to incite you to post a response rather than just pass on...
  7. Frank Smith from Ontario, Canada writes: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  8. B A from Ottawa, Canada writes: ali mansur from Etobicoke, absolutely hilarious. Thanks I needed that. As for myself I get about 5-6 hours sleep a night. Why? Ironically so I can work out and keep in shape. It just happens that 11pm-12pm is the only time I get to do it. Thus, I suspect if I took that time to sleep I'd actually gain weight. I can't believe someone paid these yokels.
  9. Darryl Williams from Canada writes: Alim mansur - please tell us which part of this paragraph you do not understand:

    "Such surveys cannot prove cause-effect relationships, so – for example – it is not clear if smoking causes sleeplessness or if sleeplessness prompts smoking, said Charlotte Schoenborn, the study's lead author."

    Based on your comment above, I guess you really didn't read the article. Either that or you fell asleep, waking up just in time to hit the "submit" button.
  10. Darryl Williams from Canada writes: Yvonne Wackernagel - based on the logic and reasoning you demonstrate in your above post, I hope you don't get paid for anything that you do.

    And of course, the few dozen people that you know easily overide the results from the 87,000 people interviewed for the survey.

    Do you understand the concept of "per cent"?
  11. Frank Smith from Ontario, Canada writes: Darryl woke up in a bad mood didn't he?!?!
  12. Rick C from Canada writes: Yvonne Wackernagel from Woodville, Canada writes: "I hope they didn't get paid for this study, because I, alone, know dozens of people who sleep poorly and do not smoke or drink."

    The article doesn't say all people Yvonne...it says more likely.

    If you actually read the article you would have noticed that the smoking rate for those who get less than 6 hours of sleep was 31 percent....10 percent higher than the national rate.

    Clearly you have never taken a statistics course or anything that develops cognitive thinking skills.
  13. Chris Kempan from Winnipeg, Canada writes: We need to get these fat lazy people out of bed or into it, apparently.
  14. CD W from Canada writes: Hmmm oversleepers tend to inactivity, translated--------teenagers to 30 somethings living in the basement. same old same old.
  15. Bob McDonald from Canada writes: They have just proven that people who over eat, smoke and don't exercise have sleeping troubles.

    Duh!

    When do the real scientists get called in?
  16. Pamela Achurch from Peterborough, On, Canada writes: Studies like this one have so many holes in them, they are useless....no mention was made of chronic pain in sleep disturbance...how could they get so many obese smokers in the study if subjects were randomly chosen...etc,etc, etc.........garbage in, garbage out. Who paid for it anyway? It seems to suggest that we need to be rushing off to the drugstore to get sleep medication instead of writing comments to the Globe at 4a.m.
  17. Earl Anthony from Sudbury, Canada writes: THe article ignores one of the biggest determinents of sleep duration: age.
  18. Me in Ontario from Canada writes: yeah sure Yvonne but do you have a big belly and borderlne diabetes? I think thats what the article is saying isn't it?

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