Sleep More For Less Heart Diseases
In a recent study done by the University of Chicago Medical Center showed that getting more sleep may prevent future heart complications.
The study involved 495 subjects to be monitored by trackers that would feed information back to labs where the researchers can study sleep patterns. To this data they added data for other significant differences such as age, gender, race, smoking etc. and concluded that people who slept more than 7 hours a night had the lowest risk of artery calcification whereas those who slept under 5 hours a night had a much greater risk.
Artery calcification is a process where a person’s coronary arteries contain calcium deposits. Calcium inside of coronary arteries is a marker for diseased arteries and coronary heart disease accounts for 20% of US deaths.
So here is the final data,
About 12 percent of the people in the study developed artery calcification during the five-year study period. Among those who had slept less than five hours a night, 27 percent had developed artery calcification.
That dropped to 11 percent among those who slept five to seven hours, and to 6 percent among those who slept more than seven hours a night.
So to everyone out there, especially those who have a family history of heart disease, be sure to get your 7.5 hours a night.
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