AAP endorses new recommendations on sleep times [AAPPublications.org]

Samantha Sangenito 6/16/1612:00 PM

Teens should sleep eight to 10 hours per night while younger children need even more sleep, according to new recommendations from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).

The group lays out optimal amounts of sleep for children of different ages in the June 13 statement Recommended Amount of Sleep for Pediatric Populations, which has been endorsed by the AAP.

“Regularly sleeping fewer than the number of recommended hours is associated with attention, behavior, and learning problems,” according to the statement. “Insufficient sleep also increases the risk of accidents, injuries, hypertension, obesity, diabetes and depression.”

Likewise, too much sleep has been linked to obesity, diabetes and mental health problems, the group said.

[For more of this story, written by Melissa Jenco, go to http://www.aappublications.org...16/06/13/Sleep061316]

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Robert OlcottMember

What would we learn about the needed sleeping patterns of children in Ciudad-Juarez, if they didn't have nightmares two nights a week, or 52% of Detroit Metropolitan Area Schoolchildren who were experiencing PTSD when an Epidemiologist noted it in 2000 ? ? ? (Or Children in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Atlanta recently noted as similar to Detroit; or children in the Southeast Bronx 40 years ago) ? ? ?

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