diff --git a/src/lib/analytics/sleep-night.ts b/src/lib/analytics/sleep-night.ts
index 71d82ee7a..50faedcdf 100644
--- a/src/lib/analytics/sleep-night.ts
+++ b/src/lib/analytics/sleep-night.ts
@@ -1324,9 +1324,16 @@ export function summarizeSleepNights(
   tz: string,
   priorityJson: unknown = null,
 ): SleepNightSummary {
-  const nights = reconstructSleepNights(rows, tz, priorityJson).filter(
-    (n) => n.asleepMinutes > 0,
-  );
+  return summarizeNights(reconstructSleepNights(rows, tz, priorityJson));
+}
+
+/**
+ * `summarizeSleepNights` over nights already reconstructed, for a reader
+ * that gets them from the chunked Postgres walk (`readSleepNights`) instead
+ * of holding the stage rows itself.
+ */
+export function summarizeNights(all: readonly SleepNight[]): SleepNightSummary {
+  const nights = all.filter((n) => n.asleepMinutes > 0);
   const dataPoints = nights.map((n) => ({
     date: n.measuredAt,
     value: n.asleepMinutes,
diff --git a/src/lib/analytics/summaries-slice.ts b/src/lib/analytics/summaries-slice.ts
index f489baf44..2d43ab91f 100644
--- a/src/lib/analytics/summaries-slice.ts
+++ b/src/lib/analytics/summaries-slice.ts
@@ -103,17 +103,20 @@ import {
   type RollupCoverageMap,
 } from "@/lib/rollups/measurement-coverage";
 import {
-  summarizeSleepNights,
+  summarizeNights,
   type SleepSourceDiscrepancy,
-  type SleepStageRow,
 } from "@/lib/analytics/sleep-night";
 import { resolveUserTimezone } from "@/lib/tz/resolver";
+import { readSleepNights } from "@/lib/measurements/list/sleep-nights";
 import { userDayKey } from "@/lib/tz/format";
 import { localDayWindow } from "@/lib/tz/local-day";
 import { canonicalRowsOfDay } from "@/lib/mood/linked-context";
 
 const DAY_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
 
+/** No account holds this many nights; the walk is uncapped in practice. */
+const ALL_NIGHTS = 100_000;
+
 /**
  * v1.18.10 — upper bound on the cold-fallback `allTime` aggregate's
  * scan window. Sits far beyond any real account's history (the earliest prod
@@ -459,9 +462,10 @@ async function withLatestDayValues(
  * summary with one computed over per-night asleep totals (one DataPoint
  * per night). The unit stays MINUTES (canonical), so existing consumers
  * that already treat the summary as minutes keep working — they now
- * average nights instead of stages, which is strictly more correct. The
- * read is bounded to a year (~5 rows/night) and is skipped entirely when
- * the user has logged no sleep.
+ * average nights instead of stages, which is strictly more correct. It
+ * covers the whole history, like every other type here (a year's cut left
+ * `avg30LastYear` and the all-time count and range short), and is skipped
+ * entirely when the user has logged no sleep.
  */
 async function withSleepNightTotals(
   userId: string,
@@ -471,32 +475,18 @@ async function withSleepNightTotals(
   // No sleep data at all → nothing to recompute (the empty summary stays).
   if (!existing || existing.count === 0) return slice;
 
-  const since = new Date(Date.now() - 365 * DAY_MS);
-  const rows = (await prisma.measurement.findMany({
-    where: {
-      userId,
-      type: "SLEEP_DURATION",
-      deletedAt: null,
-      measuredAt: { gte: since },
-    },
-    orderBy: { measuredAt: "asc" },
-    // `deviceType` feeds the writer-level collapse: two HealthKit apps
-    // behind one source (watch stages vs phone in-bed) must not blend.
-    select: {
-      value: true,
-      measuredAt: true,
-      sleepStage: true,
-      source: true,
-      deviceType: true,
-    },
-  })) as SleepStageRow[];
-  if (rows.length === 0) return slice;
-
   const [tz, priorityJson] = await Promise.all([
     resolveUserTimezone(userId),
     loadUserSourcePriority(userId),
   ]);
-  const { summary, latestNight } = summarizeSleepNights(rows, tz, priorityJson);
+  // The whole history, as every other type in the slice: the walk names the
+  // nights in Postgres and reconstructs them ninety at a time, so the heap
+  // holds a chunk's rows however long the history is.
+  const nights = await readSleepNights(userId, tz, priorityJson, {
+    maxNights: ALL_NIGHTS,
+  });
+  if (nights.length === 0) return slice;
+  const { summary, latestNight } = summarizeNights(nights);
   // Preserve the slope tuples the night summary doesn't compute (the
   // dashboard tile reads slope30); recompute them off the night series is
   // out of scope here — the per-night `summarize()` already fills slope7 /
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/general-status.test.ts b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/general-status.test.ts
index 1c3c74ada..bd44c3aec 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/general-status.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/general-status.test.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,26 @@ vi.mock("@/lib/db", () => ({
   },
 }));
 
+// The per-type latest-readings read is one LATERAL query in Postgres; here
+// it is served from the `measurement.findMany` fixtures, newest first as the
+// query orders them, so the suite keeps describing its data as rows.
+vi.mock("@/lib/insights/recent-readings", async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual =
+    await importOriginal<typeof import("@/lib/insights/recent-readings")>();
+  const { prisma: db } = await import("@/lib/db");
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    readLatestReadingsPerType: async () =>
+      [
+        ...((await db.measurement.findMany({} as never)) as Array<{
+          type: string;
+          value: number;
+          measuredAt: Date;
+        }>),
+      ].reverse(),
+  };
+});
+
 vi.mock("@/lib/insights/status-provider", () => ({
   runStatusCompletion: vi.fn(),
 }));
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/locale-pipeline.test.ts b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/locale-pipeline.test.ts
index 4254c33be..5302d72e2 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/locale-pipeline.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/locale-pipeline.test.ts
@@ -81,6 +81,26 @@ vi.mock("@/lib/db", () => ({
   },
 }));
 
+// The per-type latest-readings read is one LATERAL query in Postgres; here
+// it is served from the `measurement.findMany` fixtures, newest first as the
+// query orders them, so the suite keeps describing its data as rows.
+vi.mock("@/lib/insights/recent-readings", async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual =
+    await importOriginal<typeof import("@/lib/insights/recent-readings")>();
+  const { prisma: db } = await import("@/lib/db");
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    readLatestReadingsPerType: async () =>
+      [
+        ...((await db.measurement.findMany({} as never)) as Array<{
+          type: string;
+          value: number;
+          measuredAt: Date;
+        }>),
+      ].reverse(),
+  };
+});
+
 vi.mock("@/lib/insights/status-provider", () => ({
   runStatusCompletion: vi.fn(),
 }));
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/prompt-soft-delete-filter.test.ts b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/prompt-soft-delete-filter.test.ts
index c26ee7d95..5e7dcf05b 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/prompt-soft-delete-filter.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/prompt-soft-delete-filter.test.ts
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ function read(rel: string): string {
 
 describe("prompt reads exclude tombstoned rows", () => {
   it("general-status filters its measurement read", () => {
-    const src = read("../general-status.ts");
-    expect(src).toMatch(
-      /measurement\s*\n?\s*\.findMany\(\{\s*where:\s*\{[\s\S]{0,300}?\bdeletedAt:\s*null/,
+    // The overview reads through the per-type latest-readings query.
+    expect(read("../general-status.ts")).toMatch(/readLatestReadingsPerType\(/);
+    expect(read("../recent-readings.ts")).toMatch(
+      /readLatestReadingsPerType[\s\S]*?m\."deleted_at" IS NULL/,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/pulse-status.test.ts b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/pulse-status.test.ts
index 6965abddc..e593ba9b8 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/pulse-status.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/pulse-status.test.ts
@@ -185,8 +185,11 @@ describe("generatePulseStatusForUser — A2 resting-target in-target %", () => {
       dateOfBirth: null,
       gender: null,
     } as never);
-    // pulse-status reads PULSE first, then RESTING_HEART_RATE.
+    // pulse-status reads PULSE first, then RESTING_HEART_RATE. The latest
+    // 365 PULSE readings reach back less than 30 days here, so the PULSE
+    // read takes the 30-day window as a second query.
     vi.mocked(prisma.measurement.findMany)
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(pulseRecords as never)
       .mockResolvedValueOnce(pulseRecords as never)
       .mockResolvedValueOnce(restingRecords as never)
       .mockResolvedValue([] as never);
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/recent-readings.test.ts b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/recent-readings.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4cb16aa6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/recent-readings.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+const { findMany, annotate } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  findMany: vi.fn(),
+  annotate: vi.fn(),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/db", () => ({ prisma: { measurement: { findMany } } }));
+vi.mock("@/lib/logging/context", () => ({ annotate }));
+
+import { readRecentReadings, RECENT_READINGS } from "../recent-readings";
+
+const now = new Date("2026-10-20T12:00:00Z");
+const minutesAgo = (n: number) => new Date(now.getTime() - n * 60_000);
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  findMany.mockReset();
+  annotate.mockReset();
+});
+
+describe("readRecentReadings", () => {
+  it("keeps the latest 365 when they reach back 30 days", async () => {
+    // One a day: 365 readings span a year.
+    const rows = Array.from({ length: RECENT_READINGS }, (_, i) => ({
+      value: 70,
+      measuredAt: minutesAgo(i * 1440),
+    }));
+    findMany.mockResolvedValueOnce(rows);
+    const out = await readRecentReadings("u1", "PULSE", now);
+    expect(findMany).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(out[0].measuredAt < out[out.length - 1].measuredAt).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("reads the last 30 days by time when 365 readings are a few hours", async () => {
+    const dense = Array.from({ length: RECENT_READINGS }, (_, i) => ({
+      value: 70,
+      measuredAt: minutesAgo(i),
+    }));
+    const month = Array.from({ length: 30 * 24 }, (_, i) => ({
+      value: 70,
+      measuredAt: minutesAgo(i * 60),
+    }));
+    findMany.mockResolvedValueOnce(dense).mockResolvedValueOnce(month);
+    const out = await readRecentReadings("u1", "PULSE", now);
+    expect(findMany).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    const window = findMany.mock.calls[1][0] as {
+      where: { measuredAt: { gte: Date }; deletedAt: null };
+    };
+    expect(window.where.deletedAt).toBeNull();
+    expect(window.where.measuredAt.gte.toISOString()).toBe(
+      "2026-09-20T12:00:00.000Z",
+    );
+    expect(out).toHaveLength(month.length);
+    expect(annotate).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("keeps fewer than 365 readings whole", async () => {
+    findMany.mockResolvedValueOnce([{ value: 1, measuredAt: minutesAgo(5) }]);
+    expect(await readRecentReadings("u1", "PULSE", now)).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(findMany).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/general-status.ts b/src/lib/insights/general-status.ts
index 0c69dfd90..1bb525a4e 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/general-status.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/general-status.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
 import { readRecentMoodScores } from "@/lib/mood/recent-scores";
+import { readLatestReadingsPerType } from "@/lib/insights/recent-readings";
 import {
   getGeneralStatusSystemPrompt,
   getGeneralStatusUserPrompt,
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ import { TRACKED_INTAKE_EVENT_WHERE } from "@/lib/medications/intake-tracking";
 const MEASUREMENT_TYPES = measurementTypeEnum.options;
 
 // The general overview folds its per-type graded series in memory from a
-// single bounded read (take 5000, desc) rather than per-type rollup-tier
+// single bounded read (the latest 365 per type) rather than per-type rollup-tier
 // reads: a many-metric account would otherwise fan out ~15 metrics × 3
 // rollup round-trips per render. `degradeStatusSnapshotToBudget` already
 // caps the multi-metric snapshot, so the bounded in-memory fold is the
@@ -169,28 +170,11 @@ export async function prepareGeneralStatusForUser(
     },
   });
 
-  // v1.4.28 — cap the snapshot input. General-status pulls
-  // every supported measurement type; without a cap the read scales
-  // linearly with account density.
-  const measurements = await prisma.measurement
-    .findMany({
-      where: {
-        userId,
-        type: {
-          in: [...MEASUREMENT_TYPES],
-        },
-        // Soft-deleted rows must never reach the prompt snapshot.
-        deletedAt: null,
-      },
-      orderBy: { measuredAt: "desc" },
-      take: 5000,
-      select: {
-        type: true,
-        value: true,
-        measuredAt: true,
-      },
-    })
-    .then((rows) => rows.reverse());
+  // The latest 365 readings of each type, bounded per type so a dense
+  // stream cannot crowd the others out (`readLatestReadingsPerType`).
+  const measurements = await readLatestReadingsPerType(userId, [
+    ...MEASUREMENT_TYPES,
+  ]);
 
   const now = new Date();
 
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/metric-status.ts b/src/lib/insights/metric-status.ts
index 3d6168610..69c1aff79 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/metric-status.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/metric-status.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
  * the card's insufficient-data state.
  */
 import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
+import { readRecentReadings } from "@/lib/insights/recent-readings";
 import {
   getMetricArchetypeSystemPrompt,
   getMetricArchetypeUserPrompt,
@@ -293,7 +294,7 @@ export async function generateMetricStatus(args: {
   let measurements: Array<{ measuredAt: Date }> = [];
   if (isSleep) {
     // The latest 365 nights, the sleep twin of the 365 latest readings the
-    // other types read. A cut on stage rows instead (2190 of them) reached
+    // other types read (`readRecentReadings`). A cut on stage rows instead (2190 of them) reached
     // back a few weeks on a stage-rich watch and began mid-night.
     const nights = (
       await readSleepNights(
@@ -308,18 +309,8 @@ export async function generateMetricStatus(args: {
     }
     measurements = nights.map((n) => ({ measuredAt: n.measuredAt }));
   } else {
-    const rows = await prisma.measurement
-      .findMany({
-        where: {
-          userId: args.userId,
-          type: meta.measurementType,
-          deletedAt: null,
-        },
-        orderBy: { measuredAt: "desc" },
-        take: 365,
-        select: { value: true, measuredAt: true },
-      })
-      .then((r) => r.reverse());
+    // The latest 365 readings, never less than the last 30 days.
+    const rows = await readRecentReadings(args.userId, meta.measurementType);
     for (const m of rows) {
       points.push({
         measuredAt: m.measuredAt,
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/pulse-status.ts b/src/lib/insights/pulse-status.ts
index 2cd31d862..3f7dfee82 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/pulse-status.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/pulse-status.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
 import { readRecentMoodScores } from "@/lib/mood/recent-scores";
+import { readRecentReadings } from "@/lib/insights/recent-readings";
 import {
   getPulseSystemPrompt,
   getPulseUserPrompt,
@@ -185,25 +186,9 @@ export async function preparePulseStatusForUser(
   // estimate for non-Berlin users. `userTz` was already resolved above for
   // the cache day-key.
 
-  // v1.4.28 — cap the snapshot input. The downstream
-  // `applyPayloadBudget` trims further but the unbounded findMany was
-  // pulling tens of thousands of rows for Apple-Health-rich accounts
-  // before the budget call even started.
-  const measurements = await prisma.measurement
-    .findMany({
-      where: {
-        userId,
-        type: "PULSE",
-        deletedAt: null,
-      },
-      orderBy: { measuredAt: "desc" },
-      take: 365,
-      select: {
-        value: true,
-        measuredAt: true,
-      },
-    })
-    .then((rows) => rows.reverse());
+  // The latest 365 readings, and never less than the last 30 days: a dense
+  // pulse stream holds 365 readings in a few hours (`readRecentReadings`).
+  const measurements = await readRecentReadings(userId, "PULSE");
 
   // v1.15.12 — the RESTING band is judged against the RESTING series,
   // not the raw PULSE stream (Apple fills PULSE with workout HR). Pull
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/recent-readings.ts b/src/lib/insights/recent-readings.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f7761440e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/insights/recent-readings.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+/**
+ * The raw readings a per-metric status snapshot reads: the latest 365, and
+ * never less than the last 30 days.
+ *
+ * The snapshots used to read `take: 365` rows. For a type read a few times a
+ * day that reaches back months; for a dense stream (a watch's pulse every
+ * few minutes, hourly folds of an imported history) it reached back hours,
+ * and the "last 30 days" figures built on it (in-target share, the resting
+ * proxy, the latest day against the one before) were computed over a sliver
+ * of one day. When the latest 365 readings do not reach back 30 days, the
+ * last 30 days are read by time instead, bounded by {@link DENSE_READ_CAP}
+ * so a pathological stream cannot take the heap; hitting the bound is
+ * annotated, never silent. The longer tail of every snapshot comes from the
+ * rollup tier, not from here.
+ */
+import type { MeasurementType } from "@/generated/prisma/client";
+import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
+import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+
+export const RECENT_READINGS = 365;
+export const RECENT_MIN_DAYS = 30;
+/** A reading a minute for 30 days is 43 200; this is above any real stream. */
+export const DENSE_READ_CAP = 60_000;
+
+const DAY_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
+export interface RecentReading {
+  value: number;
+  measuredAt: Date;
+}
+
+/** Oldest first. */
+export async function readRecentReadings(
+  userId: string,
+  type: MeasurementType,
+  now: Date = new Date(),
+): Promise<RecentReading[]> {
+  const latest = await prisma.measurement.findMany({
+    where: { userId, type, deletedAt: null },
+    orderBy: { measuredAt: "desc" },
+    take: RECENT_READINGS,
+    select: { value: true, measuredAt: true },
+  });
+  const since = new Date(now.getTime() - RECENT_MIN_DAYS * DAY_MS);
+  const oldest = latest.at(-1);
+  if (
+    latest.length < RECENT_READINGS ||
+    !oldest ||
+    oldest.measuredAt <= since
+  ) {
+    return latest.reverse();
+  }
+  const window = await prisma.measurement.findMany({
+    where: { userId, type, deletedAt: null, measuredAt: { gte: since } },
+    orderBy: { measuredAt: "desc" },
+    take: DENSE_READ_CAP,
+    select: { value: true, measuredAt: true },
+  });
+  if (window.length === DENSE_READ_CAP) {
+    annotate({
+      action: { name: "insights.recent-readings.capped" },
+      meta: { type, cap: DENSE_READ_CAP },
+    });
+  }
+  return window.reverse();
+}
+
+/**
+ * The latest `perType` readings of every type in `types`, oldest first, for
+ * the multi-metric overview. It read the newest 5 000 rows across all types
+ * at once, so a dense stream (pulse every few minutes) filled the whole read
+ * within days and every other type fell out of the overview. One index
+ * descent per type now bounds each type on its own.
+ */
+export async function readLatestReadingsPerType(
+  userId: string,
+  types: readonly MeasurementType[],
+  perType: number = RECENT_READINGS,
+): Promise<Array<RecentReading & { type: MeasurementType }>> {
+  if (types.length === 0) return [];
+  const rows = await prisma.$queryRaw<
+    Array<{ type: MeasurementType; value: number; measured_at: Date }>
+  >`
+    SELECT t."type" AS "type", x."value", x."measured_at"
+    FROM unnest(${[...types]}::text[]) AS t("type")
+    CROSS JOIN LATERAL (
+      SELECT m."value", m."measured_at"
+      FROM measurements m
+      WHERE m."user_id" = ${userId}
+        AND m."type" = t."type"::measurement_type
+        AND m."deleted_at" IS NULL
+      ORDER BY m."measured_at" DESC
+      LIMIT ${perType}
+    ) x
+    ORDER BY x."measured_at" ASC
+  `;
+  return rows.map((r) => ({
+    type: r.type,
+    value: Number(r.value),
+    measuredAt: new Date(r.measured_at),
+  }));
+}
diff --git a/tests/integration/analytics-summaries-slice.test.ts b/tests/integration/analytics-summaries-slice.test.ts
index 244c2f98a..7ff10e366 100644
--- a/tests/integration/analytics-summaries-slice.test.ts
+++ b/tests/integration/analytics-summaries-slice.test.ts
@@ -185,6 +185,37 @@ describe("GET /api/analytics?slice=summaries (C1)", () => {
     expect(envelope.data.summaries.PULSE.count).toBe(0);
   });
 
+  it("summarises sleep over the whole history, not the last year", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const user = await seedSession("slim-sleep-history");
+    const DAY_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+    const morning = new Date();
+    morning.setUTCHours(6, 0, 0, 0);
+    // One 7 h night every third day for two years.
+    const nights = Array.from({ length: 244 }, (_, i) => ({
+      userId: user.id,
+      type: "SLEEP_DURATION" as const,
+      value: 420,
+      unit: "minutes",
+      source: "APPLE_HEALTH" as const,
+      measuredAt: new Date(morning.getTime() - i * 3 * DAY_MS),
+      externalId: `uuid-slice-night-${i}`,
+      sleepStage: "CORE" as const,
+    }));
+    await prisma.measurement.createMany({ data: nights });
+
+    const { GET } = await import("@/app/api/analytics/route");
+    const response = await (
+      GET as unknown as (req: Request) => Promise<Response>
+    )(new Request("http://localhost/api/analytics?slice=summaries"));
+    expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+    const sleep = ((await response.json()) as SlimEnvelope).data.summaries
+      .SLEEP_DURATION;
+    // Every night counts, and the window a year back has nights in it.
+    expect(sleep.count).toBe(244);
+    expect(sleep.avg30LastYear).toBe(420);
+  });
+
   it("default slice still carries the thick envelope (additive contract)", async () => {
     await seedSession("slim-default-still-thick");
 
diff --git a/tests/integration/insights-recent-readings.test.ts b/tests/integration/insights-recent-readings.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3fa334a9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/insights-recent-readings.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/**
+ * The overview's per-type latest-readings query against Postgres: a dense
+ * stream is bounded on its own and cannot crowd a sparse type out, deleted
+ * rows stay out, and the rows come back oldest first.
+ */
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { getPrismaClient, truncateAllTables } from "./setup";
+import { readLatestReadingsPerType } from "@/lib/insights/recent-readings";
+
+beforeEach(async () => {
+  await truncateAllTables(getPrismaClient());
+});
+
+describe("readLatestReadingsPerType", () => {
+  it("bounds each type on its own", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const user = await prisma.user.create({
+      data: { username: "recent-per-type", email: "rpt@example.test" },
+    });
+    const now = Date.now();
+    const base = {
+      userId: user.id,
+      source: "APPLE_HEALTH" as const,
+    };
+    await prisma.measurement.createMany({
+      data: [
+        // 6 000 pulse readings a minute apart: a few days of a watch.
+        ...Array.from({ length: 6000 }, (_, i) => ({
+          ...base,
+          type: "PULSE" as const,
+          value: 60 + (i % 20),
+          unit: "bpm",
+          measuredAt: new Date(now - i * 60_000),
+        })),
+        // Weight once a week for a year, the newest one deleted.
+        ...Array.from({ length: 52 }, (_, i) => ({
+          ...base,
+          source: "MANUAL" as const,
+          type: "WEIGHT" as const,
+          value: 80,
+          unit: "kg",
+          measuredAt: new Date(now - i * 7 * 86_400_000),
+          deletedAt: i === 0 ? new Date() : null,
+        })),
+      ],
+    });
+
+    const rows = await readLatestReadingsPerType(
+      user.id,
+      ["PULSE", "WEIGHT", "BODY_FAT"],
+      365,
+    );
+    const byType = (t: string) => rows.filter((r) => r.type === t);
+    expect(byType("PULSE")).toHaveLength(365);
+    expect(byType("WEIGHT")).toHaveLength(51);
+    expect(byType("BODY_FAT")).toHaveLength(0);
+    for (let i = 1; i < rows.length; i += 1) {
+      expect(rows[i].measuredAt >= rows[i - 1].measuredAt).toBe(true);
+    }
+    // The newest pulse reading is in, the oldest of the 6 000 is not.
+    expect(byType("PULSE").at(-1)!.measuredAt.getTime()).toBe(now);
+  });
+});