A new CDC report shows that high school students who reported sleeping 7 hours or less on school nights had a higher likelihood of several injury-related risk behaviors. They were more likely to report infrequent bicycle helmet use, infrequent seatbelt use, riding with a driver who had been drinking, drinking and driving, and texting while driving compared with students who reported sleeping 9 hours.
Read the report in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Sleep Duration and Injury-Related Risk Behaviors Among High School Students — United States, 2007–2013