Some interesting research has been done linking sleep to getting the common cold.
A study of 153 men and women aged 21 to 55 found that people who sleep less than 7 hours per night were about 3x more likely to get a cold than people who slept 8 hours or more per night.
Sheldon Cohen who headed the study said “People whose sleep was disturbed were much more likely to develop colds than people who went to sleep, slept all night, and got up in the mornings”.
The researchers don’t yet know why less sleep is connected to susceptibility to common colds. To be honest I’m not massively bothered why, I’m just going to make sure I get lots of good sleep so I don’t get any more colds!
The study was headed by Sheldon Cohen, psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University. It was published Monday Jan 12th in Archives of Internal Medicine.
Source: cnn. Image: caitlinator
