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Professional baseball players who lose sleep due to jet lag may make more mistakes in the game, according to a study Monday. The biggest negative effects were seen when players skipped just two or three time zones moving eastward, disrupting their body clock, said the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal. "The negative effects of jet lag we found are subtle, but they are detectable and significant," said lead author Ravi Allada, a researcher at Northwestern University.

 

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