Climate Change Could Promote Sleep Deprivation Among Poor and Elderly
A new study from the University of California-San Diego revealed that global warming brought about by climate change could negatively affect how humans sleep, promoting more sleepless nights in poor and the elderly.
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, showed that the current trend increasing temperature could cost people in the United States millions of additional night of insufficient sleep by 2050, if climate change is not properly addressed.
“What our study shows is not only that ambient temperature can play a role in disrupting sleep but also that climate change might make the situation worse by driving up rates of sleep loss,” said lead author Nick Obradovich, who conducted much of the research as a doctoral student in political science at UC San Diego, in a press release.
For the study, the researchers…
