Perhaps the most important unanswered question in human history is the question of when we will die. Although scientists have not yet found a way to predict when we will die, they are conducting various studies to understand how close we are to death. One of them aims to explain the relationship between sleep and death.
The research, published in the academic journal Digital Medicine, brought together the results of 12,000 studies that examined sleep characteristics, including jaw and leg movements, breathing and heartbeat in people during sleep. The result, though not surprising, is remarkable.
Diseases disrupt sleep patterns first
Combining past studies, scientists developed a model to reveal sleep patterns and quality, which people call sleep age. Machine learning was used in this model. According to the researchers, the correlation between a person’s health and sleep quality reveals their sleep age.
According to past studies, one of the first things to be disrupted in diseases is sleep patterns. For example, people with Parkinson’s often have violent dreams about 5 to 10 years before symptoms appear.
In studies approaching sleep from different angles, he described the situation in which people wake up at night but do not remember waking up as “the strongest sign of death”. This type of sleep disorder is different from insomnia or sleep apnea. One of the researchers, Dr. “Determining why sleep disruption is so harmful to health is something we plan to work on in the future,” Mignot said.
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