Posted on 04/14/2023 9:21:20 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Daytime naps longer than a half-hour appear to nearly double a person's risk of developing an irregular heartbeat, a study reports.
People who nap 30 minutes or more a day have a 90% higher risk of developing the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation (a-fib) than those who take shorter naps, according to research presented.
"Our study indicates that snoozes during the day should be limited to less than 30 minutes," Dr. Jesus Diaz-Gutierrez said in a society news release. "People with disturbed night-time sleep should avoid relying on napping to make up the shortfall."
A-fib causes the heart's upper chambers to beat irregularly, increasing a person's risk of stroke fivefold, the researchers said.
For this study, the investigators tracked more than 20,000 Spanish university graduates.
During an average follow-up of nearly 14 years, 131 participants developed a-fib.
Those taking longer naps had nearly twice the risk of atrial fibrillation compared to those taking short naps, according to the first analysis. Meanwhile, folks who didn't nap did not have any elevated a-fib risk compared to short-nappers.
Looking more closely at short-nappers, the researchers found that those who napped for fewer than 15 minutes had a 42% lower risk of developing a-fib, while those who napped 15 to 30 minutes had a 56% reduced risk compared with long nappers.
"The results suggest that the optimal napping duration is 15 to 30 minutes," Diaz-Gutierrez said.
He said there are many potential explanations.
"For example, long daytime naps may disrupt the body's internal clock (circadian rhythm), leading to shorter night-time sleep, more nocturnal awakening and reduced physical activity," he said. "In contrast, short daytime napping may improve circadian rhythm, lower blood pressure levels and reduce stress."
While the study found an association between naps and a-fib risk, it could not prove cause and effect.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
“A 100 minute nap merely gets you ten minutes of REM sleep”
As I said, speak for yourself. You can’t actually speak for anyone else.
‘100 minutes is not a normal “nap.”’
Who voted you the Nap President to make these decisions?
Sleep apnea?
“Maybe those with a-fib are more tired and are more likely to nap?”
My mother’s situation and her cardiologist both support your theory. Being tired all the time is a symptom of a-fib. It makes sense for one to be tired if one’s heart is constantly beating at over 100 BPM.
Since the medical field has been so trust-worthy over the past few years, I will totally pay attention to this advice. No more hour-long afternoon naps for me! No, indeed! Thirty minute naps will be all I’ll take!
Amen!
If you’re going to get A-fib, you’re going to get A-fib. It doesn’t matter what you do.
I’ve known people who got it when they were 65 and others who got it while they were in their 40s... There is no rhyme or reason... There is only one thing that will predominately determine your future... Genetics.
99% of what happens to you health wise is a result of genetics... That’s the long and short of it. The concept that you can control your health is mostly nonsense. You can’t, because your genetics will determine what happens to you in life.
Just ask Jim Fixx... Actually you can’t because he died of heart attack at the age of 52 while running, but he did write a famous book ‘The Book of Running’ that health freaks grasped on to as a ‘fix’ for healthy living. Given the fact that he died at a relatively young age, the idea that running is an elixir for health was exposed as completely fraudulent, but for some odd reason people still think they can add years to their life by running... It didn’t work out to well for Jim Fixx though, did it?
Running won’t save you and neither will anything else... Your genes and God will determine the time of your demise.
Is this from the same people who recommended that we all wear face diapers for 3 years?
Or daytime sleepiness (and hence long naps) is associated with sleep apnea which is a risk for a fib
30 minute nap? That just doesnt compute for me. I did work with a guy tho that could sit down and sleep sitting up. Hed be asleep in seconds and in 10 minutes wake up refreshed. Incidentally, he was Vietnamese. Eastern meditation technique maybe? For me a nap aint a nap unless its an hour or 2.
I am not so sure I can trust any medical article anymore. This just screams, yet again, that everything is a threat to us...even sleeping somehow.
They’re running out of factoids, or they don’t know nothin’ in the first place. I suspect the latter, of course...
The impact of frequent napping and nap practice on sleep-dependent memory in humans
Interesting timing of the new info, eh?
Correlation is not causation.
1. Daytime naps cause AFib.
2. AFib causes daytime naps.
3. Both are caused by other untested factors.
Calling BULLSHIRT on this.
Science?
And the jabs are SAFE and EFFECTIVE.
Not for REM sleep but it's good for RUM sleep.
A while ago I was reading an article on the SEAL nap, which is 10 minutes long with your feet raised. I think it came out of the paradigm of Einstein and Edison who used to take naps with something in their hand and when that’s something dropped they would wake up and it would be just before they went into deep sleep.
So I tried it I guess if it was good enough for the Navy Seals it was good enough for me and as a former military member we grabbed a few winks whenever we could but it wasn’t a studied affair.
So okay.. when you’re feeling fatigued put your feet up set your timer for 10 minutes and wake up refreshed. I found 15 to 20 minutes ideal for me because it takes me 5 or so minutes to drift off and I’ll be nodding off when it gets to the point that I feel the need to lay down. I pull my exercise mat out from under the couch lay on it with my feet and legs up on the couch kind of like sitting down in a prone position cover my eys with a rag and drift off. White noise like the dryer or dishwasher running is also helpful.
Works pretty good! I take one or maybe two of those daily.
During an average follow-up of nearly 14 years, 131 participants developed a-fib.
That’s a small sample to be accurate should be at least 1000 to get a more accurate number.
It’s a kin to a sample of 100 voters
If you breath air then your chances of a heart attack increase way beyond someone who doesn’t breath air.
These idiotic “studies” are run by idiots.
Thanks! Noted, forwarded!
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