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Losing a night of sleep may increase blood levels of Alzheimer’s biomarker
January 9, 2020 by NewsBot
A preliminary study has found that when young, healthy men were deprived of just one night of sleep, they had higher levels of tau -- a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease -- in their blood than when they had a full, uninterrupted night of rest.