Many behavioral factors are known to affect increase your risk of early death. In a study published Monday, Oregon Health & Science University researchers analyzed data tied to several such variables, and found that, with the exception of smoking, none—exercise, food insecurity, loneliness, unemployment, health insurance, education—had a greater correlation to shorter life expectancy than insufficient sleep.

“We think of sleep as something that may not be as important—’I’ll get it tomorrow, or I can wait till the weekend to catch up on it’—where it really needs to be something that we prioritize on a daily basis,” says Andrew McHill, a senior author on the study and the director of the Sleep Chronobiology and Health Laboratory at the OHSU School of Nursing, where a graduate team conduct

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