Healthy life expectancy has been a useful indicator of population health that combines
length and quality of life into a single measure,
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which is usually defined as the number of years living in optimal health without
diseases and/or disability. Both shorter and longer sleep durations are related to
adverse health outcomes; therefore, it is likely that an optimal sleep duration may
be related to longer healthy life expectancy in older people. However, only 1 study
has investigated the association between sleep duration and healthy life expectancy.
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Published online: December 24, 2021
Footnotes
Funding sources: This work was supported by a grant-in-aid from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Sciences research grants, Japan (Comprehensive Research on Cardiovascular and Life-Style Related Diseases: 19FA2001).
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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