Health

Are you Insomniac?
by Claudia Sonea

If you are the kind of person that suffers because at night can't have a good sleep or had to reduce the sleeping hours due to work issues, the recent study tied to sleeping and mortality brings you very bad news. Francesco Cappuccio, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Warwick's medical school, is the coordinator of the study based on the sleep patterns of participants aged 35-55 years during two periods of their life, 1985-88 and 1992-93 and then until 2004. The general sentence is that if you're not having enough sleep, you are twice more probably to die due to heart disease. The reasons are not yet well known, but mostly it's all linked to increased blood pressure, commonly known to raise the risk of heart attacks and stroke. 10000 government employees were studied for 17 years and the result was that those who cut their seven hours sleep to five hours or less had to deal a 1.7-fold increased risk in mortality from all causes and double the risk of cardiovascular death. Also busy modern lifestyle is a permanent danger and it is a real problem because more then a third of UK residents and 40 percent of US regularly sleep less than five hours a day. The percentage of other countries it is not yet known, but it is a high one mostly in the countries that are in full process of developing. The results took in count age, sex, smoking and alcohol consumption, body mass index, blood pressure and cholesterol. However, there are other risks if you get more than seven hours sleep, like cancer or fatigue. So the optimal is no more or less than 7 hours/night. The study was supported by British government and U.S. funding and it is the first one of this type. Don't forget and pay attention to the hours spent on sleeping, because it could seriously damages your health. Don't go away, more to come.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070924/hl_nm/sleep_death_dc;_ylt=Am3K2c3V55do7xvVj222rRKs0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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