Posted on 02/26/2015 6:39:55 PM PST by 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).
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Can’t do anything today, smoking kills, too much sleep, to little sleep etc.
I worked in a place up north called Quincy MA and there was a graveyard. In this graveyard everyone died around the 19 hundreds and all died in their 80s and 90’s.
Maybe because food was fresh and people worked with exercise.
really, I get about 6 or 5 hours and is pisses me off. I wish I could sleep more.
It's always something.
/johnny
Yes, really.
I usually stay up for 24 - 36 hours and then sleep 12 - 14 and sometimes sleep for over 18 hours.
Whenever I eat lots of carbs or sugar, I’m OUT for a long, long time.
We will all stroke out some day. :-(
I’m 64 and would give anything to be able to sleep at least 8 hours a night. I have to get up at 4am for work every weekday so my normal is about 6 hours of sleep a night as there is too much going on at home with my elderly in-laws medical situations for me to go to bed before 10pm. On weekends I can’t sleep past 5am, no matter what time I go to bed. I’m tired!
Life will kill you.
No, looks like sleep will kill us. Better lay in a good supply of meth....
My God! How are you able to manage that? ... :-) ...
I think it said that age figured into it.
Severe depression.
Death of my cherished husband.
Now that sounds bipolar ... :-) ...
Really?! What about simply dying in your sleep?
Sorry to hear that ... :-( ...
Same here - hoping for dreams of him and me together again.
It will be four years next week, and while it is getting somewhat better, I still feel that my real life ended when he died, and I am now just waiting until, hopefully, I might see him again.
But, in spite of what some promise us, I am unsure about human theories of the hereafter, so I remember a line from Shakespeare...
“To sleep, perchance to dream”. (Or something like that)
Not one word of it applies to me.
I’m 82.
I’m lucky if I get 5 hours a night.
I’ve had a stroke.
Most “studies” are crap.
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Four years next week.
I’m so sorry and I completely understand when you say that your “ real life ended when he died, and now you’re just waiting until, hopefully, you might see him again.”
Sleep is my refuge. I welcome sweet sleep and hate to awake, but “nature calls” and I have a weak bladder, so I try to limit my liquids before my bedtime (whenever that *is*).
Thank you for the Shakespear quote.
i believe in the hereafter and while I’m certain he’s in Heaven, I’m truly uncertain about my chances.
God bless and keep you, beautiful jacquej.
Thank you so much for telling me.
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