Is Sleeping Good for the Heart?
Is Sleeping Good for the Heart?
Amid Holiday Rush, Getting Good Sleep May Help Your Heart, Research
Suggests
ESSAY By JOHN G. SPANGLER, M.D.
Dec. 25, 2008
Time to relax around the Christmas dinner table with family and
friends.
Time to catch up on sleep?
For those who are always looking for an excuse to sleep in, or sleep
more, your search is not in vain: According to new research, hours
spent sleeping protects against calcium Shox Warriordeposits in the coronary
arteries — the deposits responsible for heart attacks.
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical
Association by Christopher King and colleagues from the University of
Chicago has found a relationship between sleep quantity (hours spent
asleep) and calcium build up — or calcification — Shox Glamour IIin the arteries
that supply the heart muscle with blood.
For each additional hour of sleep, the risk of calcification of the
coronary arteries decreased by 33 percent — an outcome equal to
reducing blood pressure by 16 point elevations.
Moreover, the sleep relationship did not change even when the
researchers controlled for certain traditional risk factors for heart
disease, such as cholesterol, weight and Shox Rhythmicdiabetes.
The results were part of the ongoing Coronary Artery Risk Development
in Young Adults Study (CARDIA), which is being carried out at four
cities nationally.
This report focused on nearly 500 patients at the Chicago CARDIA site.
Participants were black and white men and women aged 35-47 years,
measured initially in 2000-2001 and followed up in 2005-2006.
Sleep was measured by a wrist band recording wristShox D movement on an
initial Wednesday through Saturday night period.
This wrist recorder is a very good measurement of time spent asleep –
nearly as good as sleep measured in a sophisticated sleep laboratory.
However, the wrist band is less disruptive to normal sleep than
sleeping in a sleep lab, because there is no “first-night” effect –
the disruption of the normal sleep structure of a subject that is
often seen with more intrusive Shox Propulsiontesting.
The amount of calcium in the coronary arteries was measured by CT
scanning of the heart.
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