American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on June 1, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(1):19-20; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj201
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Lauderdale et al. Respond to "How Much Do We Really Sleep?"
1 Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2 Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
3 Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
4 Department of Health Economics and Management, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China
5 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
6 Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA
Correspondence to Dr. Diane S. Lauderdale, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637 (e-mail: Lauderdale@uchicago.edu).
Received for publication March 20, 2006. Accepted for publication April 14, 2006.
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We enjoyed reading Stuart Quan's wide-ranging and poetic perspective on the importance of sleep, and we thank him for his insightful commentary (1
) on our paper (2
). Noting the unexpectedly low average sleep duration in our study, he touched upon two possible sources of bias; both are intriguing suggestions. The first is that actigraphy
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