Can Healthy Sleep reduce Your risk of Heart Disease?

The answer is YES, according to a study, published last week in European Heart Journal

The methods included 5 sleep factors:
1. How early do You normally go to bed? (Early chronotype)
2. How long do You sleep? (7-8hrs/24hrs)
3. Inability to sleep? (seldom or never)
4. Sleep apnoea, or rather lack of it?
5. Hypersomnia? (daytime sleepiness)

The above formed a Healthy Sleep Score.

The researchers included over 11k participants, of whom nearly a half were females (44.6%). The age of the individuals was between 53-64 years and the follow up lasted nearly 9 years.

The risk of Cardiovascular Disease (ischaemic heart disease and stroke) was reduced by 18% as the Healthy Sleep Score increased by one.

The authors concluded:
'Higher Healthy Sleep Score and Healthy Sleep Score improvement over time are associated with a lower tisk of Coronary Heart Disease and stroke in the community.'

Link to the article below:
https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad657

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