Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Lack of sleep cause heart disease

Lack of sleep cause heart disease

Cutting back on sleep could increase the risk of heart disease, a study published Monday found.

Sleeping less than 7.5 hours a night was associated with a 33 percent higher rate of cardiovascular incidents such as strokes and heart attacks, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Archives of Internal Medicine.

Japanese researchers monitored the sleep of 1,255 people with hypertension for an average of 50 months. Read more after the break...
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