Amdavad: A latest journal published by the American Heart Association describing that 7 to 8 hours sleep a day reduces a person’s 42 per cent risk of heart failure compared to those with unhealthy sleep patterns.
Heart failure affects more than 26 million people and emerging evidence indicates sleep problems may play a role in the development of heart failure.
The new study describes healthy sleep patterns as early rising in the morning, sleeping 7-8 hours a day, and having no frequent insomnia, snoring or excessive daytime sleepiness.
The Research team had recorded incidence of heart failure until 2019.
After collecting data through touchscreen questionnaires, researchers analyzed sleep quality and overall sleep patterns, including whether the participant was a night owl and if they were likely to unintentionally doze off or fall asleep during the daytime.
Corresponding author and professor of epidemiology Lu Qi said that “The healthy sleep score we created was based on the scoring of these five sleep behaviors,”
Lu Qi is also director of the Obesity Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans. “Our findings highlight the importance of improving overall sleep patterns to help prevent heart failure,” he added.
After adjusting for diabetes, hypertension, medication use, genetic variations, and other co-variates, participants with the healthiest sleep pattern had a 42% reduction in the risk of heart failure compared to people with an unhealthy sleep pattern.
The most interesting thing is – researchers found that early rising reduces 8 per cent risk heart failure, Sleep of 7 to 8 hours daily decreasing 12 per cent risk, No insomnia problem reduces 17 per cent and no daytime sleep reducing 34 percent risk of heart failure.
_Vinayak
