Survey Results on National Sleep Data to Be Released at CES Health Summit

Results of a national survey determining the country’s “sleep score” will be released at the Digital Health Summit at CES on Jan. 6, said a blog post by celebrity physician Mehmet Oz on the CTA website Tuesday. The survey, launched Oct. 20 and backed by Oz, ResMed and Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas, had a goal of building more than 1.5 million records of data to assess the nation’s sleep fitness in the form of a national sleep score. Early data from the SleepScore campaign indicate Americans are sleep deprived and “more stressed out” in the time since the Nov. 8 election than at other times in two years of baseline data, said Oz. After a “significant spike in stress levels” and reduced sleep time since election night, Americans in the Eastern and Western time zones “have not returned to normal sleeping patterns,” Oz said. The study used data from ResMed S+ sleep tracking devices and the company’s SleepScore technology, which monitors and calculates the four stages of sleep (onset, light, deep and rapid eye movement), sleep duration, nightly awakenings, and light and temperature levels in order to assign users a nightly “SleepScore” as a metric of individual sleeping patterns. “If America improved its SleepScore collectively, there would be more productivity and better health overall,” said Oz, who will speak at “Confronting the Sleep Epidemic Head-On,” at 11:30 a.m. in Lando 4303 at the Venetian.