Apple Watch reveals that we don’t get enough sleep. A new study conducted using Apple Watches reveals that many people don’t get enough sleep every night. Using data from the Apple Heart and Movement Study collected by Apple Watch, researchers say that most people don’t get enough sleep each night.
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The research, released this month by Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is based on sleep data collected from more than 42,000 Apple Watch users. Researchers analyzed more than 2.9 million nights of sleep via the Apple smartwatch, finding that only 31% of these people sleep at least seven hours a night, which is the minimum recommended for healthy adults.
The American Heart Association recommends getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night. Not getting at least seven hours of sleep can put you at risk for “cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline and dementia, depression, obesity, and high blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels.”
The researchers collected their data through the Apple Heart and Movement Study. This study was first announced by Apple in 2019, and anyone can access it using the Apple Health app or the Apple Research app on their iPhone in the US.
Using this data, the researchers were able to glean a number of interesting data:
- On weekdays, people go to bed before midnight 66.4% of the time, but that number drops to 56.6% on weekends.
- Washington had the highest percentage of people sleeping more than 7 hours at 38.3%. Hawaii ranked lowest with 24.2%.
- For participants who shared at least 10 nights of sleep data (for a total of 42,455 participants), the average individual sleep time was 6 hours and 27 minutes.
- In all states, fewer than 40 percent of residents met the AHA-recommended sleep duration.
This is only part of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital study. The researchers say that the second part of the “Life’s Essential 8” series will be released soon.
