Night owls may prefer to sleep when they’re dead, but that day may come even sooner than they think.
夜猫子们可能更喜欢在死后睡觉,但那一天可能比他们想象的还要来得快。
New research has found that people who stay up late had a 10 percent higher risk of dying over a six-and-a-half-year period.
新的研究发现,熬夜的人在六年半时间里的死亡风险要高出10%。
The authors of the nearly 500,000-person study, published in Chronobiology International, say it’s the first of its kind to link mortality to night-owl habits. They weren’t sure why the subjects who stayed up late were more likely to die early, but they suspect it probably has something to do with their 9-to-5 lives.
“We think the problem is really when the night owl tries to live in a morning-lark world,” lead author Kristen Knutson told the Los Angeles Times. “So they want to be up late but they have to be up early for work, and so [by] the time that they’re doing things, like waking up or eating, is not at the correct time for them.”
Their research has also found that night owls are more likely to have a huge list of health problems: higher rates of diabetes, mental health disorders, neurological conditions, psychological stress, drug and alcohol use and inactivity. Oh, and also, they’re probably pretty tired.