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Poor sleep is robustly correlated with accelerated aging but the evidence for causation is mixed

2026-07-06

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Sleep gets worse with age and is correlated with risk for disease and mortality. The possibility that poor sleep causes aging to accelerate has prompted interest in improving sleep to slow aging and prevent disease. However, the existing evidence on the link between poor sleep and accelerated aging is unclear. Here, we tested for correlation and causation between poor sleep and accelerated aging using five indepen...

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Literature Corpus work: 9a4cfec2-149f-50b1-8bce-25eb2a9639d8
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.02.26357135

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