The Brief
- Americans could use more sleep – and that’s especially true if you’re in the eastern half of the United States.
- The 10 most sleep-deprived cities in the nation are mostly on one side of the U.S. map.
- Ohio, meanwhile, had three of the top 10 most sleep-deprived cities.
Fewer than half of Americans say they got enough sleep last year, and according to an analysis of CDC data, your sleep quality could depend on where you live.
Researchers for the Innerbody health website weighed five metrics in the top 100 most populated cities to determine which cities are the most and least sleep-deprived, including prevalence of obesity, prevalence of no leisure-time physical activity, prevalence of frequent mental distress, prevalence of binge drinking and noise and light pollution.
Here’s what they found:
What causes sleep deprivation?
Why you should care:…