The Exact Amount of Sleep Needed To Protect Against Diabetes Risk

The Exact Amount of Sleep Needed To Protect Against Diabetes Risk

Participants self-reported both their weekday and weekend sleep durations. Weekend catch-up sleep was sorted into four buckets: none, up to one hour, one to two hours, and more than two hours. The average participant slept about 7.5 hours on weekdays and 8 hours on weekends, with just under half reporting some form of weekend catch-up sleep.