Minnesotans rank high in getting good sleep

Adults 18 to 60 years should be sleeping at least seven hours a night, according to the Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, which are sleep-related professional associations.

The CDC says that people in Hawaii report getting the least amount of healthy sleep in the U.S. Healthy sleep is defined by the CDC as snoozing for seven hours or more.

People in Minnesota are making sleep a priority, according to a new study from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Too little sleep increases the risk for a number of health conditions, including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and frequent mental distress, the CDC said.

A new CDC study concludes something we’ve known for a while: Americans aren’t getting as much sleep as they should.

Married folks also sleep better, with 67 percent getting healthy sleep compared with 62 percent of people never married and 56 percent of those divorced, separated or widowed, the study showed.

“Lifestyle changes such as going to bed at the same time each night; rising at the same time each morning; and turning off or removing televisions, computers, mobile devices from the bedroom, can help people get the healthy sleep they need”.

CDC researchers reviewed data from the 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a state-based, random-digit-dialed telephone survey conducted collaboratively by state health departments and CDC.

A lower proportion of adults reported getting at least seven hours of sleep per day in states clustered in the southeastern region of the United States and the Appalachian Mountains.

The study found that among those most likely to get great sleep were married or have a job, with 67 per cent and 65 per cent respectively saying they get enough. THE RECOMMENDATION The report didn’t dig into why certain states or racial groups got less sleep than others.

Compare that to South Dakota, which has the healthiest dozers in the country, which reports 71.6 percent of residents catching enough z’s.

The agency also urged employers to adjust work schedules and educate shift workers-particularly those in medical, emergency response and transportation professions-to make sure they get enough sleep. Of those surveyed, only half of African-Americans responded that they receive adequate sleep versus two-thirds of whites and Hispanics.