Diseases of the blood vessels supplying the heart and brain tissues are leading causes of death among Americans.
And while researchers have known that things like metabolic syndrome -- high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and/or triglycerides, high body mass index
and high blood sugar -- and poor sleep increase the risk of these
diseases, the true impact of these other factors has remained poorly
understood so far.
Researchers
at Stanford University examined these metabolic risk measures, along
with sleep duration, in more than 1,300 individuals using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's death records and the National Death Index.
They
then tracked their survival about 16 years later. Stanford researchers
found that individuals who had three or more metabolic risk factors
and slept less than six hours nightly were twice as likely to have died
compared with those with similar risks but who slept more than six
hours a night.
Most importantly, high blood pressure and blood sugar issues were most strongly tied to this increased risk.
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