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Consistent Sleep Pays
It's good to sleep 7 hours, but if by accident you begin to sleep 8
hours a night, you are twice as likely to die in one article. In another,
if you drop down less than 7, you're also twice as likely to die. Better
sleep the right amount, or your dead. Check out the fight over the last
remaining time slot in your life.
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Lack of sleep may be deadly
24 September 2007 - By Ben Hirschler - uk.reuters.com
LONDON (Reuters) - People who do not get enough sleep
are more than twice as likely to die of heart disease, according to a
study released on Monday.
Although the reasons are unclear, researchers said lack of sleep
appeared to be linked to increased blood
pressure, which is known to raise the risk of heart attacks and
stroke.
A 17-year analysis of 10,000 government workers showed those who cut
their sleep from seven hours a night to five or less faced a 1.7-fold
increased risk of death from all causes and more than double the risk
of cardiovascular death.
The findings highlight a danger in busy modern lifestyles, Francesco
Cappuccio, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of
Warwick's medical school, told the annual conference of the British
Sleep Society in Cambridge.
"A third of the population of the UK and over 40 percent in the U.S.
regularly sleep less than five hours a night,
so it is not a trivial problem," he said in a telephone interview.
"The current pressures in society to cut out sleep, in order to
squeeze in more, may not be a good idea -- particularly if you go
below five hours."
Previous research has highlighted the potential health risks of shift
work and disrupted sleep. But the study by Cappuccio and colleagues,
which was supported by the government and U.S. funding, is the first
to link duration of sleep and mortality rates.
The study looked at sleep patterns of participants aged 35-55 at two
points in their lives -- 1985-88 and 1992-93 -- and then tracked their
mortality rates until 2004.
The results were adjusted to take account of other possible risk
factors such as initial age, sex, smoking and alcohol consumption,
body mass index, blood pressure and cholesterol.
The correlation with cardiovascular risk in those who slept less in
the 1990s than in the 1980s was clear but, curiously, there was also a
higher mortality rate in people who increased their sleep to more than
nine hours.
In this case, however, there was no cardiovascular link and Cappuccio
said it was possible that longer sleeping could be related to other
health problems such as depression or cancer-related fatigue.
"In terms of prevention, our findings indicate that consistently
sleeping around seven hours per night is optimal for health," he said.
| Comment: It seems
that sleep has become an issue and what is strange about it is the
fact that the 7 hour base as versus an 8 hour base
has come under severe attack, as though this small difference is
the amount of time you sleep can have ever lasting affects. That
would be misleading to say the least. People have been sleeping 8
hours a night for hundreds of years, and now according to the
following article below, you are taking a great risk. This kind of
nonsense bickering over 1 hour seems mighty strange, and
propaganda is probably not far behind.
Too much sleep can double death risk
"Washington, Sept 25: Researchers from
the University of Warwick and University College London have found
that while a lack of sleep doubles a person’s risk of death from
cardiovascular diseases, too much of sleep can also have the same
mortality effect from predominantly non-cardiovascular diseases.
[...]
He further said that individuals who
showed an increase in sleep duration to eight hours or more a
night were more than twice as likely to die as those who had not
changed their habit, though predominantly from non-cardiovascular
diseases. [...]"
So now we have this weird quagmire in the
news about 1 hour of sleep, and it looks as though there is a
fight over the last available time in the world, on a bigger
picture. Cutting your sleep is obviously not good, but on
occasion, people need to sleep longer, and they can remove stress
by doing so, and that is usually what happens. This may be the
main reason someone would advise that sleeping 8 hours is now
dangerous, when we know that can't be. Wouldn't want the public
getting the right amount of sleep as they may begin to think more
clearly.
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