{
  "id": 8073060,
  "title": "REM and deep sleep, not just total sleep time, associated with disease risk",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/rem-and-deep-sleep-not-just-total-sleep-time-associated-with-disease",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-17T18:00:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-rem-deep-total-disease.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Greater amounts of REM and deep sleep were associated with lower risks of dozens of diseases, and less than 5 hours of total sleep was associated with high disease risks, according to a new study published Sept. 17 in the journal PLOS Medicine by Shengzhi Sun of Capital Medical University, China, and colleagues.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "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."
}