A 36-year Israeli occupational cohort study of 7,287 workers found that young adults (under 45) sleeping 5 hours or less nightly showed 55% higher all-cause mortality risk—exceeding the whole-cohort effect and challenging assumptions that short sleep primarily harms older workers. — Photo by www.kaboompics.com on Pexels (Pexels License)
MD, MPH, PhD. Editor-in-Chief, Georgian Medical Journal (GMJ). Professor and Head, School of Public Health, David Tvildiani Medical University (DTMU), Tbilisi, Georgia. Chair, Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG). President, Accréditation Sans Frontières (ASF), Paris. Secretary/Treasurer, UEMS Section of Public Health. WHO Consultant, Health and Migration, Geneva. Former Member, UN Secretary-General's Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent (IAP-EWEC, 2016–2021). ORCID: 0000-0001-7609-4515.
