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In a study released Monday in Preventive Medicine, researchers looked at how 3,104 teens ages 13 to 17 slept.

sa国际传媒淪urprisingly, we found no relationship between poor health outcomes and those who chronically had less than eight hours sleep a night,sa国际传媒� study author Annalijn Conklin said.

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Conklin, a scientist with the Centre for Health Evaluations and Outcome Sciences, said she looked into sleep because she found it largely overlooked in discussions about health that focused on diet and exercise.

sa国际传媒淲hat was particularly interesting was that the relationship between chronic, poor-quality sleep and health outcome was stronger in the boys than it was in the girls,sa国际传媒� she said.

Conklin said that although the study couldnsa国际传媒檛 be used to imply causation, sa国际传媒渋t shows that theresa国际传媒檚 definitely a link between poor health and chronic poor-quality sleep, which may be gender specific.sa国际传媒�

She said that although this study looked only at sleep habits, earlier studies on caffeine and screen time before bed meant enforcing sleep schedules and placing restrictions on screen time would likely improve teenssa国际传媒� health.

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