Binge watchers more likely to need multiple night-time loo breaks – study

Watching at least five hours of TV a day associated with higher risk of nocturia, or needing to get up and urinate twice or more a night

Sitting down to binge watch the latest TV drama might seem like the perfect way to unwind, but researchers have found that people who spend lengthy periods in front of the box are more likely to need to pee multiple times a night.

Writing in the journal Neurourology and Urodynamics, researchers in China report how they analysed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in the US, focusing on responses collected from 2011 to 2016.