By Stephen Beech

Teenagers who don’t get enough sleep on school nights are at greater suicide risk, according to a new study.

Researchers established a link between disrupted sleep in early adolescence and later suicide attempts for the first time.

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among teenagers in the UK.

But, despite teenagers’ well-known tendency to miss out on sleep as a result of both biological and social factors, the long-term impact of sleep loss on suicide risk had remained unclear until now.

University of Warwick researchers analyzed data from more than 8,500 British youngsters in the Millennium Cohort Study.

The findings, published in the journal Sleep Advances , found that teenagers who reported a suicide attempt at age 17 were more likely to have h

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