My WoFit health monitor (Made in China, of course) not only monitors my heart rate, heart rate variability, blood pressure, and O2 saturation, but also my sleep. I suspect that it senses body movements, and uses them to distinguish light from deep sleep. It then examines the ratio of both kinds of sleep, and it gives an opinion concerning one’s sleep quality. The other night, the day that Susan left for Omaha, I tossed and turned all night. In the morning, I looked at the sleep monitor opinion, and the SOB said, “Excellent.” Most days it says “Perfect” or “Excellent.” It may have said “Good,” on one occasion, but I’m not sure. I’m starting to think that Chinese programmers are hesitant to show sleep quality assessments like, “Awful,” “Pathetic,” or “Your sleep quality really sucks.”
I suspect that the same programmers did not read the medical news item that I read yesterday. A study examined the predictive power that sleep time had for the future development of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The authors of the study observed that fewer than four hours or more than 6.5 hours of sleep were both associated with a greater risk of developing AD.
I rarely get fewer than seven, and more often as many as 8.5 hours of sleep each night. I’m not certain, but I could be focked.