Whites Tend to Sleep Better than Asians, Blacks and Hispanics

[Anonymous No.]

>CHICAGO – White people seem to sleep longer at night, have a better quality of sleep and experience less daytime sleepiness than people identified as black, Hispanic or Asian, according to a new study from Northwestern Medicine.

>“We found that black adults have the worst quality of sleep, and Asians experience the highest amount of daytime sleepiness of the four races,” said Mercedes R. Carnethon, associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

>Carnethon will present the research June 13 at SLEEP 2012, the 26th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) in Boston.

>These racial/ethnic differences in sleep persisted, even when researchers took into account the participants’ cardiovascular disease risk (CVD) factors and education levels, Carnethon said. In previous studies, CVD has been associated with shorter and poor quality sleep, and persons with less education and fewer financial resources often suffer the worst sleep.

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2012/06/carnethon-sleep-race.html