“How did you sleep?” You might answer that question by weighing how many hours you slept or how often you woke up throughout the night.
But there is a third, often neglected, element of sleep to consider, experts say. It’s the consistency of your sleep schedule.
Sleep consistency refers to how well you maintain the same bedtime and wake-up time, give or take 30 minutes — and that includes weekends, said Jean-Philippe Chaput, a professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa in Ontario.
Research suggests that most adults in the United States do not have a consistent sleep schedule. And that may be harming their health, Chaput said.
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