New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Getting enough sleep is essential for a healthy lifestyle. According to experts, if you sleep for 7-8 hours every day, your heart remains healthy and the risk of heart attack is reduced.
Lack of sleep increases the risk of heart diseases, so it is necessary to get enough sleep. According to experts, sleeping for 7-8 hours every day keeps the heart healthy and reduces the risk of heart attack. Lack of sleep increases the level of stress hormone cortisol in the body, which increases blood pressure and sugar levels. This increases the risk of heart diseases.
According to experts, if you get enough sleep every day, your heart remains healthy. Apart from this, blood pressure, sugar level remains controlled and stress also reduces. Therefore, experts also advise you that it is necessary to sleep for 7-8 hours every day to stay healthy and avoid heart attack. A new study has found that getting enough sleep can reduce the risk of heart disease by 20 percent. This study was done on people who used to sleep for 7-8 hours daily.
Getting enough sleep is associated with a lower risk of heart disease, said researcher Yanjun Song at Beijing’s Fuwai Hospital, reports the New York Post. Song’s team analyzed sleep data from 90,900 people living in the UK. Of these, about 19,800 (22 percent) slept less than seven hours a night on average.
The researchers monitored the people whose sleep data was analyzed for about 14 years. Song’s team monitored the records of heart disease victims. Experts recommend sleeping for seven to nine hours every night so that people can avoid sleep deprivation.
Researchers found that people who got the most sleep were 19 percent less likely to develop heart disease.
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