Sleep a lot? You might have a heightened risk of stroke, study says

latimes.com ^ | Karen Kaplan

[BenLurkin]

When the study participants were examined according to age, the researchers found that sleeping for more than eight hours a night increased stroke risk only for people who were at least 63 years old. On the flip side, they found that sleeping for less than six hours a night heightened stroke risk for younger people more than for older people.

Finally, they discovered that “short” sleepers were more at risk for an ischemic stroke (the kind caused by a clot that blocks blood flow to the brain) while “long” sleepers were more at risk for a hemorrhagic stroke (the kind caused by a ruptured blood vessel bleeds into the brain).

[dfwgator]

Life will kill you.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Last week getting too little sleep would kill you.

[Vendome]

Sleep a lot?

Is that some kind of joke?

Who has that luxury?

[SkyDancer]

As Mark Twain wrote (no, the other one) “ Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

[ClearCase_guy]

The amount of time you spend sleeping? It’s wrong.

[fr_freak]

So the lesson here is that if you don’t get exactly 7.23753 hours of sleep per night, you’re going to die. See you in hell, people.

[jobim]

And Goldilock sleepers, getting the amount just right, are at increased risk for: cancerdiabetesaltzheimeraccidentalfallscaraccidentscirrosiskidneystonesmesotheliomamelanoma because they live longer.

[Ditter]

Well that’s confusing.

[umgud]

Different strokes for different folks.

[Star Traveler]

I guess I’m okay, then. I’m an old fogey, sleeping less than 8 hours a night ... :-) ...

[onyx]

Standing by for my stroke.
I often sleep 12 - 14 hours.

[Politicalkiddo]

Sleep too much, you die. Sleep too little, you die. You sleep, you die. You don’t sleep, you die.

[BenLurkin]

Who has that luxury?

[Still Thinking]

Probably another of those epidemiological “studies” that find correlation and can’t tell it apart from causation. How do they know some sort of stroke precursor condition doesn’t make you sleep a lot? Or maybe the groups that have strokes also sleep a lot but with no connection? Idiots.

[Cementjungle]

I wonder what the stats are for cats.

[BenLurkin]

Exactly what the study says!

[LostInBayport]

One of the many flaws government agencies and scientists who perform studies suffer from is that they think “one size fits all”.

Not so. Your mileage may vary, as is said.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I get lots of sleep so I guess that means Im a dead duck

[Vendome]

LOL!