Such studies should be taken for what they're worth. Many 'studies' show that going short on sleep has all sorts of health implications, including dementia. My family are notoriously bad at getting more than six hours of sleep each night, and we've been doing it for years upon years. We have no more incidence of various age-related maladies than the general population. If I were to stick my neck out and propose that science has gotten one thing right, it would be that a failure to move one's mass over time is the single greatest predictor of early mortality. If you aren't active, walking at least three km each day, some of it at a good clip, you're likely to find yourself needing orthopedic intervention, endocrine intervention, cardiologist intervention, mental health intervention, dietician's intervention, etc, etc,