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Long‐term sleep deprivation in rats produces dramatic physiological changes including increase in energy expenditure, decrease in body weight, and death after 2–3 weeks.
I found this study on rats. I don’t know how closely they think it applies to humans https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=long+term+sleep+deprivation+effects#d=gs_qabs&t=1738939326248&u=%23p%3DyEAZSamoVLEJ
Surely it’s possible to query the outcome and re-analyse the data?