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Kristen Knutson

Kristen Knutson

Neurologist

Kristen Knutson is an associate professor of neurology, working at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.[1][2] With researchers from the University of Surrey, she studied the mortality rate of half a million people over 6.5 years and concluded that people who self identify as "definite evening type" had a 10 percent higher mortality rate than those who identified as "definite morning type".[3] It was the first study of its type to look into the mortality rate of night owls.

References

  1. [1]
    Storrs, Carina (June 19, 2015). "Get enough sleep or risk early death, research shows". CNN. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  2. [2]
    Kristen Knutson publications indexed by Google Scholar.
  3. [3]
    "Study: Night Owls Have Risk of Dying Sooner than Early Risers". WTTW News. April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2019.


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