Poor sleep tied to kids' lower academic performance

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Poor sleep tied to kids' lower academic performance

By Veronica Hackethal, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who have trouble sleeping tend to do worse in school than their peers who get a good night's sleep, a new study suggests. Researchers in Brazil looked at children age seven to 10 who attended Sao Paulo public schools. They found kids with symptoms of sleep disorders or sleep breathing disorders earned lower grades than those without problems sleeping, on average. Thirteen percent of children with difficulty sleeping had failing grades in Portuguese, compared to nine percent of those without sleep problems. ...

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