4 Things You Should Never Do After a Breakup (And 1 You Always Should)

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It looks like Khloé Kardashian is finally ready to move on from estranged husband Lamar Odom. On Sunday, the reality star shared a long Instagram post about “letting go” of a troubled relationship, which we assume is a reference to her marriage: “You can’t force someone to be the person you need them to be,” she wrote. “Letting go with love takes great strength.”

That’s because even when breaking up is for the best, it’s still really hard to do. But fortunately, science has your back. Here, four things you should never do after you uncouple, according to research—plus, one strategy that can really help you cope.

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Don’t go on Facebook

A social media cleanse—or at the very least, clicking the “unfriend” button—may help you heal. Research published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking suggests that Facebook-stalking your ex can seriously impede your ability to move on. “People who engaged in Facebook surveillance of their ex-partner, [meaning] people who more frequently looked at their ex-partner’s Facebook page and friends list, reported delayed emotional recovery after a breakup compared to people who engaged in less surveillance,” said study author Tara Marshall.

Don’t write about it (maybe)

Although recording your feelings (à la Kardashian) is commonly thought of as helpful, it may actually have the opposite effect—at least for some people. In a 2012 study from the University of Arizona, researchers recruited participants who had were recently  separated or divorced into three groups. Those in the first group were asked to describe their feelings in a journal. The second group completed “narrative expressive writing” exercises. And the third group simply chronicled just their day-to-day activities. It turned out that participants in the first and second groups who also happened to be “high ruminators” (i.e., people who tend to dwell on upsetting subjects) reported greater emotional distress eight months later. The researchers suspect that for high ruminators, writing about their painful emotions may actually prolong the agony.

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Don’t let it hurt your health

Along with rom-coms and retail therapy, indulging in Ben & Jerry’s feels like an essential post-breakup rite of passage. But try not to completely lose track of your diet and fitness goals: Experts agree that one of the best things you can do at this time is focus on improving your health. “One of the things you are losing [in a breakup] is a sense of control,” MJ Ryan, author of AdaptAbility: How to Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For previously explained to Health. “Think of something you can do physically or mentally that is completely in your control like getting stronger and lowering cholesterol. These [types of goals] will help restore a sense of control over your life.”

Don’t knock the rebound

They tend to get a bad rep, but rebound relationships may not be so terrible after all. A 2014 study from Queens College at the City University of New York found that among the recently uncoupled, people who spent less time between partners experienced greater well-being, higher self-esteem, and more confidence in their desirability.

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Do ask yourself the important questions

When getting over a breakup, the type of self-reflection you do can make a difference. In a 2015 study, researchers divided newly single people into two groups. Both groups completed a survey designed to determine how they felt about the split. One group was dismissed afterwards, while the second group returned four additional times over the next nine weeks. During each session, the participants were asked the same four questions:

When did you first realize you and your partner were headed towards breaking up?

What do you remember about the separation itself, the actual time when you and your former partner separated?

How much contact have you had with your former partner? What kind(s) of contact?

How has the breakup affected your thoughts and feelings regarding romantic relationships?

Nine weeks later, the participants who repeatedly answered these questions showed greater emotional recovery, and had a better sense of their identities as single people. “The process of becoming psychologically intertwined with the partner is painful to have to undo,” lead study author Grace Larson pointed out in a news release. But what she calls “self-concept repair” may help you get through the agony faster—and emerge stronger for it.

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Expert Panel Reaffirms Daily Aspirin’s Use Against Heart Disease, Colon Cancer

MONDAY, April 11, 2016 (HealthDay News) — People in their 50s who are at increased risk of heart disease should take a low-dose aspirin each day to reduce their risk of both heart disease and colon cancer, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends.

Americans in their 60s who are at increased risk of heart disease can also benefit from taking aspirin, the influential expert panel said, but the benefit is somewhat smaller for this age group.

Therefore, the decision to take low-dose aspirin between age 60 to 69 should be made with a doctor, based on the patients’ risk of heart disease and gastrointestinal bleeding, as well as their overall health and personal preferences.

A low-dose aspirin is typically 81 milligrams.

The USPSTF said that there is not enough evidence to determine the risks or benefits of daily low-dose aspirin in adults who are either younger than 50, or older than 70.

The recommendations are not entirely new: The guideline favoring daily low-dose aspirin to ward off colon cancer was first issued in 2007, while the advisory on heart disease prevention was issued in 2009. However, this is the first time the advisories have been included together in one recommendation, the panel said.

And there were some caveats to the guidelines. For example, the recommendation for people in their 50s applies only to those not at increased risk for gastrointestinal bleeding, who are expected to live at least 10 more years, and are willing to take low-dose aspirin daily for at least 10 years.

Overall, however, “the Task Force found that for 50- to 69-year-olds at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, taking aspirin can help prevent heart attacks and strokes as well as colorectal cancer,” Dr. Douglas Owens, a former member of the Task Force who led the review, said in a task force news release.

Owens is a general internist at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and a professor at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif.

Task force chair Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo said in the news release, “Before starting to take aspirin for primary prevention, people aged 50 to 69 should talk to their primary care clinician to understand their risk of cardiovascular disease and risk for bleeding.”

Bibbins-Domingo is a professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.

The recommendations appear on the task force website and were published online April 11 in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Heart disease and colon cancer are leading causes of death among American adults. According to the USPSTF, heart attacks and strokes cause 30 percent of deaths in the United States, and colon cancer is the third most common cancer, causing about 50,000 deaths in 2014.

Two experts support the guidelines.

“Recommending low-dose aspirin for prevention of heart attack and stroke has been a cornerstone of risk reduction by cardiologists,” said Dr. Kevin Marzo, chief of cardiology at Winthrop-University Hospital, in Mineola, N.Y. “Emerging data suggests low-dose aspirin may also reduce colorectal cancer.”

Dr. David Bernstein is chief of hepatology at Northwell Health in Manhasset, N.Y. He said that while the recommendations “make sense,” the added risk for bleeding means that “aspirin must be used judiciously and in appropriate patients.”

And the USPSTF stressed that taking low-dose aspirin is just one part of heart disease and colon cancer prevention. Other measures include eating a healthy diet, regular exercise and not smoking. Healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels also reduce the risk of heart disease, and regular screening can help prevent colon cancer.

More information

The U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has more about taking low-dose aspirin daily.

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Gigi Hadid Will Make You Want to Get Bangs ASAP

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Gigi Hadid is clearly not afraid to try out drastically different hairstyles for the red carpet. Sure, she often goes with her signature beachy waves, but every once in a while, she really shakes things up. This time? Bangs! For the MTV Movie Awards, the supermodel stepped out with a brand new set of blunt, choppy bangs.

And while we don’t know if they’re actually real, we do know they look absolutely amazing. But, then again, duh.

As someone who originally cut bangs after seeing a celeb flawlessly rock ’em, I have to say, Gigi’s new look has that influential power. That reminds me, I should probably go get a trim…

So are they clip-ins? That we don’t know yet. It’s totally possible—remember that time she debuted a fake bob on the red carpet, of which turned out to be an awesome wig styled by celeb hairstylist Bryce Scarlett? Considering the same hairstylist did her hair for the MTV Movie Awards taping last night, he could have used a similar impressive technique.

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This also isn’t the first time we’ve seen Gigi wearing bangs. She actually rocked the look in her new Vogue photoshoot with her bae Zayn Malik.

This article originally appeared on MIMIchatter.com.

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Life Expectancy Varies Based on Your Income

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Money may not buy you happiness (or love) but it might just buy you more time to find them.

In the most comprehensive look at life expectancy and income—based on tax returns filed by every American from 1999 to 2014—Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Stanford University, and his colleagues report in JAMA that with more income, people tend to live longer. Some experts had expected that at some point, the relationship would level off so that making more wouldn’t provide any added years, but Chetty’s study showed otherwise. While the amount of added life started to shrink as incomes grew, more money essentially lead to more years of life. Overall, people with the top 1% in income lived nearly 15 years longer than those at the bottom 1%.

At the other end of spectrum, lower income was associated with shorter life spans, with no plateau. That suggests that life spans can’t necessarily be traced to something that people are buying to stay alive longer—such as better health care or state-of-the-art drugs. Yes, medical care is important for longevity, but what’s more important, according to this data, are behaviors that can affect health.

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The data also showed interesting differences in life expectancies among those with lower incomes depending on where in the U.S. they lived. While previous studies found that people in urban areas tended to have shorter life spans compared to those living in certain suburban and rural areas, presumably because of the higher cost of living in cities and the added stress of being in a densely populated area, Chetty found the opposite to be true. In fact, lower income people living in cities like New York and San Francisco enjoyed longer life expectancies than those living in Detroit or Tulsa.

While it’s not clear why, Chetty suspects that there is a trickle-down effect in certain cities where public health efforts to improve living conditions, enforce policies like smoking bans and removal of unhealthy ingredients like trans fats benefit people at all income levels. People with lower incomes in cities with such policies tended to be less obese, smoke less and have better health behaviors than people in other cities that didn’t advocate for such health-promoting behaviors. “Inequalities in life expectancy across areas are more likely explained by different behaviors rather than access to life-saving medical care,” says Chetty.

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By analyzing data at the local level, he was able to discern differences in life expectancy that national level data don’t pull out. And that’s important for understanding how public health officials can start to bring some of the benefits to people in other income brackets as well. “The big picture message is that there is a lot of talk about inequality at a national level, but this paper shows that in the context of health, for one of the most important outcomes, life expectancy, the debate should be a local one,” says Chetty.

This article originally appeared on Time.com.

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Adele’s Makeup Artist Shows How to Get Her Perfect Winged Eye

Now we are one step closer to copying Adele’s dramatic winged eye—thanks to her generous makeup artist, Michael Ashton, who spills the secrets to his technique in this tutorial.

His first tip for the perfect cat-eye: Start by dabbing some black gel eyeliner on the back of your hand. This allows the product to dry out a bit, so it’s more “workable,” Ashton explains. Then apply the liner to your lid, starting near the “middle inner corner of the eye” and working out.

Ashton gradually builds thickness as he goes, finishing just past the end of the natural lash line. When he returns to the inner corner, he gently stretches the lid to avoid any creases as he draws the thinnest section, and blends it with the original line. Even with a black liner, it helps to use several layers: “You do need to keep going back over, revisiting … and just build up that color density,” he says.

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Next comes the tricky part: the wing. “What I like to do is start right at the base of the lashes, using a little more pressure on the brush, so that we get a thicker line. And as I drag it outwards and upwards at a 45-degree angle towards her temple, just take a little bit of that pressure off so that you get a thinner, softer flick.”

Finally, to sharpen the shape of the flick (and clean up any mistakes you made earlier), Ashton recommends a little Bioderma water and Muji thin cotton buds.

Ashton’s technique is undoubtedly harder than it sounds. But remember your goal:

All the effort will be worth it when your final result looks something like that.

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Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Tied to Depression

By Amy Norton
HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, April 11, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Older men who receive testosterone-suppressing therapy for prostate cancer may be at increased risk of developing depression, a new, large study suggests.

The findings are based on over 78,000 U.S. men treated for earlier-stage prostate cancer.

Researchers found that among those given hormone-suppressing therapy, 7 percent developed clinical depression in the next few years. That compared with 5 percent of men who did not have the treatment.

The findings do not prove that hormone therapy is to blame. But they do offer “pretty strong evidence” that might be the case, said senior researcher Dr. Paul Nguyen. He is director of prostate brachytherapy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston.

Nguyen said his team accounted for some other factors that could affect depression risk — including the severity of a man’s cancer, his age and education. And there was still a connection between hormone therapy and depression.

Plus, Nguyen said, the longer the men were on hormone therapy, the higher the risk of depression.

Of men who were treated for six months or less, 6 percent developed depression within three years of their cancer diagnosis. That rose to 8 percent among men who were on hormone therapy for at least a year, the investigators found.

Dr. Mayer Fishman is a medical oncologist at Moffitt Cancer Center, in Miami, who has studied the side effects of hormone therapy for prostate cancer. He and his colleagues have found a similar link between the therapy and depression symptoms.

“What I like about this study is that it’s large, and it puts a number on the risk,” said Fishman, who was not involved in the research.

So while it tells men and their doctors that hormone therapy may contribute to depression, Fishman said, “it also puts the risk in context.”

Why would hormone therapy raise a man’s likelihood of depression? Nguyen pointed to a few possible reasons.

“It could be a direct effect of reduced testosterone levels on mood,” he said. “But there could also be indirect effects.”

Some of the physical effects of testosterone suppression — from sexual dysfunction to hot flashes to weight gain — may hinder a man’s quality of life, Nguyen explained.

Hormone therapy is an option for treating some prostate tumors because testosterone can feed the cancer’s growth. At one time, hormone therapy was an automatic choice, according to Nguyen. But that has changed.

“More and more, we’ve been recognizing that it has harms,” Nguyen said. And for many men with earlier-stage prostate cancer, he added, those side effects could outweigh any benefit.

Unlike many other cancers, prostate cancer is often slow-growing and may never progress to the point where it’s life-threatening. In fact, men are often diagnosed with “low-risk” prostate cancer — meaning it’s unlikely to spread — and they can opt to delay getting treatment at all, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Instead, those men can choose “active surveillance,” which means they have the cancer regularly monitored to see if it’s progressing. Hormone therapy is not a good choice for men with low-risk cancer, Nguyen said.

When men do opt for treatment, surgery and radiation therapy are the main approaches. For those with high-risk prostate cancer, Nguyen said, there is evidence that adding hormone therapy can improve their survival odds.

“High risk” means that the cancer could grow and spread within a few years, according to the NCI. To judge a prostate tumor’s risk level, doctors use different measurements — such as the amount of prostate-specific antigen in a man’s blood, and how abnormal (and aggressive) his tumor sample looks under the microscope.

Things get trickier, Nguyen said, when a man has “intermediate-risk” prostate cancer. In those cases, the benefits of hormone therapy are less clear, and would have to be weighed against the risks.

“Our study suggests that psychiatric side effects should be one of the considerations,” Nguyen said.

The findings, published online April 11 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, are based on Medicare records for over 78,000 U.S. men treated for prostate cancer between 1992 and 2006. Overall, 43 percent underwent hormone therapy.

Once other factors were taken into account, hormone therapy was tied to a 23 percent increase in the risk of depression, the investigators found.

While all of the study patients were older, both Nguyen and Fishman said the depression likely applies to younger men, too.

Still, Fishman said that the risk should be kept in perspective. “Seven percent of men on hormone therapy became depressed,” he said. “Put another way, 93 percent did not.”

Plus, Fishman added, depression is treatable if it’s detected.

“If we understand that depression is a risk, we can talk about it with patients and they can anticipate it,” he said.

“Men, especially older men, are pretty good at not showing their feelings,” Fishman added. “So this is a wake-up call for them to speak up. They don’t have to suffer in silence.”

More information

The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more on hormone therapy for prostate cancer.

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Study Suggests Brain Damage in 40 Percent of Ex-NFL Players

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, April 11, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Two out of five retired National Football League players may suffer from traumatic brain injuries, a small study suggests.

Brain scans of 40 former NFL players, age 36 on average, found that nearly 43 percent had significantly more damage to the brain’s white matter than healthy adults the same age, researchers said.

Also, testing showed about half had significant problems following through on goals, and more than two out of five had learning, memory or attention problems.

“This is another piece of the puzzle that playing football places people at risk for traumatic brain injury that may cause problems later in life,” said lead researcher Dr. Francis Conidi, from the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology, in Port St. Lucie.

Traumatic brain injury may be a precursor to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative disease of the brain, Conidi said. “It’s important to prevent traumatic brain injury, because there is nothing you can do when they reach CTE,” he said.

Conidi added that one-third of people with traumatic brain injuries go on to develop Alzheimer’s, CTE or other neurodegenerative diseases.

The NFL, which for years disputed the notion that head injuries led to brain damage, said in a statement that it values studies of this kind.

“It is clear there are long-term health risks associated with sustaining head injuries,” said an NFL spokesman. “Studies of this nature are important to further advancing the science and better understanding these risks.”

One way to reduce the danger of traumatic brain injury in football is to limit hitting in practice, Conidi said, “because the damage is most likely cumulative.”

“You can’t take the hitting completely away without compromising the game,” Conidi said. However, “there is an accepted risk by the athlete,” he added. “As long as we can present the information that you may have problems later in life, they can make an informed decision.”

Another expert welcomed the report.

“Overall, this is a significant study highlighting the potential damage that can occur over time, especially in professional sports,” said Dr. Mohan Kottapally, an assistant professor of clinical neurology and neurocritical care at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

However, Kottapally said the study findings don’t necessarily establish a direct cause-and-effect relationship between the MRI findings and observable thinking problems. More information is needed for that, he said.

“The difficulty we face in treating patients with this disease is in determining the connection between imaging findings of dysfunction with clinical findings of dysfunction,” he said.

The former athletes in the study ranged in age from 27 to 56. They played in the NFL for an average of seven years and reported an average of eight concussions, Conidi said.

In addition, 12 men reported several sub-concussive hits — hard blows that weren’t diagnosed as a concussion, he said.

When the researchers used special MRIs and examined the brain’s white matter, which connects brain regions, they found 17 players had evidence of traumatic brain injury, Conidi said.

Also, 30 percent had disruption of the nerve cells that allow brain cells to send messages to each other, he said.

It appeared those who played the longest were most likely to have signs of traumatic brain injury.

The number of concussions suffered, however, was not related to signs of traumatic brain injury, Conidi said.

The explanation must lie somewhere else, Conidi said. One possible cause is that hits during play — not necessarily head hits — cause strain deep within the brain’s white matter, which result in lasting damage, he said.

This may be why offensive and defensive linemen were most likely to show signs of traumatic brain injury, he said. “It’s not concussion, it’s the banging that appears to be causing the problems here,” he added.

“We have possibly found a link to CTE or an alternative explanation for some of the neurological problems people are finding in retired football players,” he said.

The study findings were scheduled for presentation Tuesday at the American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada. The research should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.

More information

For more on traumatic brain injury, visit the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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ER Screenings Could Help Prevent Suicide: Study

MONDAY, April 11, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Routine screening of emergency room patients for suicide risk might be an effective way to prevent it, a new study suggests.

Nurses at eight ERs were trained to screen patients for three suicide risk factors: depression, suicidal thoughts and previous suicide attempts.

Over five years, suicide screenings rose from 26 percent to 84 percent, and detection of patients at risk of suicide increased from nearly 3 percent to 5.7 percent, the University of Massachusetts Medical School researchers found.

The study was published in the April issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

“Our study is the first to demonstrate that near-universal suicide risk screening can be done in a busy [emergency department] during routine care,” lead author Edwin Boudreaux said in a university news release. Boudreaux is vice chairman of research in the department of emergency medicine.

“The public health impact could be tremendous, because identification of risk is the first and necessary step for preventing suicide,” he added.

Boudreaux noted that patients who were found to be at risk were further evaluated and provided with resources that they otherwise would not have received.

“In fact, with screening we identified a subset of patients [10 percent] whose suicidality was serious enough to warrant psychiatric inpatient treatment. What would have happened to them if they had been discharged? The conventional wisdom is that at least some of those individuals would have tried to kill themselves,” he noted.

The other 90 percent of patients who screened positive for suicide risk were discharged with resources such as a self-help safety plan, lists of community services and a wallet card with contact information for local suicide prevention hotlines.

More information

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance has more on suicide prevention.

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At the Store or Work, a To-Do List Helps

MONDAY, April 11, 2016 (HealthDay News) — You’re less likely to forget grocery items if you take a list when shopping rather than relying on your memory, a new study finds.

The study included 700 people in different shopping scenarios. In one experiment, shoppers were asked to predict how many items they would remember to buy after they spent 10 minutes reading a story and then shopped.

The participants couldn’t correctly predict the items they were apt to forget, which shows the need to use a grocery list, according to the study, which was published online recently in the Journal of Consumer Psychology and will appear in the July print issue of the journal.

“One of our key findings is that people don’t correctly anticipate when they are more likely to forget items. When we have something in our mind, it is hard to imagine that we will forget it,” researcher Daniel Fernandes, an assistant professor of marketing at Catholic University of Portugal, said in a journal news release. Only about half of shoppers use lists, he added.

The findings are also applicable to work, he said.

“We often rely on our memories to perform familiar tasks at work, and those tasks will come easily to mind, but unfamiliar tasks are hard to recall,” Fernandes said. “To maximize our effectiveness on the job, it’s important to pay special attention to those less familiar tasks and put them on the agenda.”

The researchers also found that when people are shopping for items they don’t buy regularly, they were more likely to remember them if they walked up and down all the store aisles.

“For unusual purchases, this is a more effective approach because seeing the product will trigger the memory,” Fernandes said.

More information

The U.S. National Institutes of Health talks about forgetfulness.

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Mom Was Right: A Good Night’s Sleep Helps Keep You Healthy

By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, April 11, 2016 (HealthDay News) — In news that’s sure to have mothers everywhere saying, “I told you so,” scientists have confirmed that a good night’s sleep may keep colds and other infections at bay.

The odds that someone who sleeps five or fewer hours a night had caught a cold in the past month were 28 percent higher than for folks who regularly get more shuteye, the study found.

And for other infections — including flu, ear infections and pneumonia — short sleepers had more than 80 percent higher odds of having an infection in the past month compared to those sleeping seven or eight hours, the study said.

“People who sleep five or fewer hours on average are at substantially increased risk for both colds whether head or chest or other infections, compared to people who sleep seven to eight hours on average,” said study researcher Aric Prather. He’s an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, San Francisco.

The researchers also found that people who have sleep disorders or those who have ever told their physician that they have sleep troubles had about 30 percent higher odds of having had a cold in the previous month. The odds of infection in the past month for people with sleep disorders were more than doubled, the study said.

Experts cannot say for sure why lack of sleep helps increase susceptibility to infections. However, Prather said, it is known that T-cells, a type of white blood cells that fight off infection, don’t work as well when you are sleep-deprived.

The new study builds on Prather’s previous work. In a past study, he exposed people to a cold virus and found there was a link between sleep duration and the risk of catching a cold.

In the current study, he wanted to see if real-world data would back up those findings. However, Prather noted that this study wasn’t designed to prove a cause-and-effect relationship.

Prather used data from the large U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination surveys (NHANES) from 2005 to 2012. He examined records of nearly 23,000 men and women, average age 46. The study volunteers reported sleep duration, if they had sleep problems or disorders, and whether they had a cold or other infection such as the flu, pneumonia or ear infection in the previous month.

The findings were published as a letter April 11 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The new research echoes some findings of previous studies, said Sheldon Cohen, professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. Cohen has previously studied sleep habits and susceptibility to colds. “We found that seven hours is about the breaking point,” he said. “People who got less than seven hours were at greater risk, basically.”

When many studies are examined, “the consistency across studies really does suggest that sleep is playing a role [in susceptibility to colds],” Cohen said. “Whether it is because sleep maintains a strong immune system, we can’t say for sure at this point.”

Other factors, such as lack of exercise, could help explain it, he said. Even so, “the data suggest that sleep may be altering the immune function in some way,” with sufficient sleep helping it.

People can become better sleepers, Prather said. Getting up at the same time every day is a start, he said. “Make sure your bedroom is cool, quiet and dark,” he advised. “Have a wind-down period [before going to sleep].”

More information

To learn more about good sleep habits, visit the National Sleep Foundation.

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