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Irregular Sleep Linked to Heart Disease in New Fitbit Study: What It Found and What It Doesn't Prove

  • A study published November 2, 2026, used months of Fitbit data from 10,362 US adults in the NIH All of Us program. Each 29-minute rise in night-to-night variation in sleep length was linked to a 24% higher risk of heart attack, heart failure, cardiomyopathy or ischemic stroke.
  • Irregular bedtimes, wake times and sleep midpoints were also linked to higher risk. Average sleep duration was not linked to the main heart outcome.
  • Sleep-length variability was also linked to heart failure (32% higher risk), high blood pressure (16%) and type 2 diabetes (20%).
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