Nearly 85% of firefighters experience stress and sleep deprivation

Mayo Clinic research found sleep deprivation can lead to 9% abdominal fat increase, 11% abdominal organ fat increase

Study finds Taiwanese consume over 920 million sleeping pills a year

Low life-course socioeconomic status, and resulting lack of sleepassociatedwith increased riskof coronary heart disease

Loss of sleep destroys health, warns expert in a TED talk, adding there is an epidemicof sleep deprivation in industrialized nations