The finding did not quite reach statistical significance, however, stressed the head of the study, epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in Durban, South Africa.
"Whilst short sleep may represent a cause of ill health, long sleep is believed to represent more an indicator of ill health," said Professor Francesco Cappuccio, who led the study and is head of the Sleep, Health and Society programme at the University of Warwick.
"This study on winter sports shows that it is not just the developing world that will suffer," said Klaus Toepfer, head of the UN environment programme which studied rising snowlines and falling incomes.
Alex Vines is head of the Africa Programme at Chatham House.
Joëlle Bitton, (DDes '16) is head of the BA programme in Interaction Design at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
he was the first Dean of the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, where he was also Director of Research and Head of the doctoral programme.
Andreas Shleicher, head of the Pisa programme, said the picture for the UK was "stagnant at best".
He has also been head of the economics programme at Chatham House, and is a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and the LSE.
Dr Mary Phillips, head of the Wellcome Trust s International Biomedical programme, advises applicants to look very carefully at the criteria.
I was brought in by the UN in early 1996 to help set up the de-mining programme in Bosnia-Hercegovina, as deputy head of the overall programme and head of the Mine Action Centre Sarajevo Region.
