As we age, especially over 65, our habitual sleep duration changes— emphasizing a potentially shorter duration that has been associated with increased risk to obesity and hypertension— irrespective of sleep apnea (stop breathing) interruptions.According to Association of Longitudinal Patterns of Habitual Sleep Duration with Risk of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality, which appeared on JAMA Network Open in April of 2020, “a laboratory study suggested that a repeating pattern of insu...