Sleep an extra hour reduces the risk of heart disease

Sleep an extra hour reduces the risk of heart disease

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The study, published in "Journal of the American Med. Association," that sleep an extra hour during the night reduces the risk of hardening of the arteries, which is one of the first symptoms of the development of heart disease.He noted the owners of the study, which took place in the University Medical Center, Chicago (Illinois, North) and published recently that earn additional hours sleep parallels the reduction of 17 mm of systolic blood pressure.And began about 12% of the 495 participants in this study, volunteers in the age of forty suffer from hardening of the arteries during a period of five years of follow-up.

And hardening of the arteries found in 27% of the participants who slept less than five hours a night. This percentage fell to 11% among those who slept five to seven hours. And for participants who slept more than seven hours it was only 6% of them in the hardening of the arteries.It seems that the benefits of sleeping on the larger arteries in women, but do not change between the races.She drew Diane Lauderdale Brofssorh of Public Health at the University of Chicago and supervisor of the study that "the coherence and size of the difference" between the various participants in the study according to the duration of sleep and the degree of hardening of the arteries "impressed."She added, "This is the difference puzzle, and we can only speculate on the reasons why those who sleep less are at greater risk for coronary atherosclerosis."He said the owners of this study to other recent studies that give rise to the belief that chronic partial deprivation of sleep may be a risk factor for a range of medical problems including weight gain, diabetes and high blood pressure

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