Poor sleep is robustly correlated with accelerated aging but the evidence for causation is mixed

Ethan T. Whitman, Aric A. Prather, Julian Mutz, Louise Arseneault, David A.A. Baranger, Maxwell L. Elliott, Helen L. Fisher, David Ireland, Annchen R. Knodt, Christoph Kositzke, Yue Leng, Aaron Reuben, Karen Sugden, Benjamin S. Williams, J. Kathy Xie, Allison Yuan, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Ahmad R. Hariri, the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
medRxiv 2026.07.02.26357135; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.02.26357135
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Jul 06, 2026
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