{
  "id": 12396853,
  "title": "How short is too short? Long-term wearable data point to a more personal way of defining insufficient sleep",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/how-short-is-too-short-long-term-wearable-data-point-to-a-more",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-06T14:00:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-short-term-wearable-personal-insufficient.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "How much sleep is enough? Public health recommendations necessarily give population-level answers. But with wearable devices now capable of recording hundreds of nights from the same person, researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have asked whether short sleep could also be assessed relative to an individual's own sleep pattern.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}