Lethargy - a symptom of the deadly disease

Doctors are trying to understand why those who spend in bed for more than eight hours, often become victims of heart disease. But it is clear that an overabundance of sleep harms no less than a disadvantage.

Health indicators 3019 patients over the age of 45 years, who were examined by cardiologists from the Chicago Medical School in the state program of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, showed that the systematic lack of sleep not only impairs the health of the heart - it kills him. Patients who slept less than six hours a night were twice as likely others from becoming victims of stroke or heart attack, and stagnation in the heart muscle have been diagnosed in 1, 6 times more often.

However, when examining the data professionals are faced with an unexpected fact - the numbers of cardiac pathologies showed that a mortal threat to the heart is, and long sleep . People who spend in bed for more than eight hours, twice as often sick angina and 1, 1 times - coronary heart disease.

Scientists still do not understand why long sleep   It turned out to be correlated with heart disease. The negative impact of lack of sleep was studied in more detail. Lack of sleep causes effects such as hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system, prediabetes (impaired glucose sensitivity) and diabetes, increased blood pressure - and all the factors that trigger the occurrence of cardiovascular pathologies. The authors believe that the fans are turning to sleep physicians because of chest pain and are subject to a more thorough examination, but to finally find out whether this is so, more research is needed.

What kind of dream is the most useful?
A healthy person needs nightly sleep duration of not less than six and no more than eight hours. It is from this period of it minimizes the risk of cardiovascular ailments with age.

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