What are the long term health implications of sleep deprivation and restriction?

What are the long term health implications of sleep deprivation and restriction?

Chris Idzikowski (Director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre) gives expert video advice on: What is sleep deprivation?; What is sleep restriction?; Does sleep deprivation have cumulative effect? and more...

With sleep deprivation, it is so difficult for people to be sleep deprived for long term. I never see a real consequence to that. Sleep restriction is the issue in terms of physical effects not necessary. Mental effects, yes, higher association with depression and other psychiatric disorders. We do not know which way around it is, the chicken or egg. Whether both disorders are actually disturbing the sleep or the disturbed sleep is causing the disorders or a mixture of the two. In terms of appetite control and because of the impact on health there, yes, there are going to be long-term effects.