By Anne Harding Anne Harding
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Older women may complain about their
sleepless nights more than men do, but new research shows they're actually catching more Z's.
Meanwhile, older men say
their sleep is more restful than it really is. "Men completely, and much more than women, overestimate the quality of their sleep," Dr. Henning Tiemeier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, who led the study, told Reuters Health.
In fact, he added, it's not so much that
women grumble more about their restless nights, but that they're simply more accurate in describing them.
Women of all ages are more likely to say they have insomnia and
other sleep problems than men, Tiemeier and his colleagues note in the journal SLEEP. But studies looking at
gender differences in sleep have had mixed results.
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