Poor sleep is dangerous for women with heart disease

Poor sleep at night worsens heart disease in women, as the researchers found the University of California. Therefore serdechnitsam recommended to pay special attention to the treatment of sleep disorders.

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If a woman is suffering from cardiovascular diseases, sleep less than six hours at night, the symptoms of her illness worsened. Especially negatively it manifests itself in a bad dream when a woman wakes up early in the morning. American researchers have found that in this case the level of inflammation in the female body will be doubled compared with a woman who also suffers from heart disease, but sleeping normally.

In this way, bad dream   worsens cardiovascular disease. These data were based on observations of 700 older women, which lasted for 5 years. For men of the same age group of scientists are not followed. Poor sleep experts called the situation in which the duration of a night's rest is less than six hours.

The level of inflammation in women who slept at night "bad" or "very bad" in 2-2, 5 times higher than the level for men. This suggests that the decline in estrogen that occurs after menopause may explain the link between lack of sleep and inflammation. Men, in turn, continue to receive some protection due to the production of testosterone.

Inflammatory processes in the body often precede the development of cardiovascular diseases. Now scientists are convinced that poor sleep at night playing in this case a much greater role than has been assumed. (READ MORE)

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