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Catching up on sleep on weekends may lower heart disease risk by up to 20%
Medical Xpress / European Society of Cardiology / ESC Congress 2024 ^ | Aug. 29, 2024 | Song, Y.

Posted on 09/02/2024 9:22:29 AM PDT by ConservativeMind

The demands of the working week can lead to sleep disruption and deprivation. However, new research shows that people that "catch up" on their sleep by sleeping in at weekends may see their risk of heart disease fall by one-fifth.

"Sufficient compensatory sleep is linked to a lower risk of heart disease," said Mr. Yanjun Song. "The association becomes even more pronounced among individuals who regularly experience inadequate sleep on weekdays."

The authors used data from 90,903 subjects involved in the UK Biobank project, and to evaluate the relationship between compensated weekend sleep and heart disease, sleep data was recorded using accelerometers and grouped by quartiles.

Sleep deprivation was self-reported, with those self-reporting less than 7 hours of sleep per night defined as having sleep deprivation. A total of 19,816 (21.8%) of participants were defined as sleep deprived. The rest of the cohort may have experienced occasional inadequate sleep, but on average, their daily hours of sleep did not meet the criteria for sleep deprivation.

Hospitalization records and cause of death registry information were used to diagnose various cardiac diseases including ischemic heart disease (IHD), heart failure (HF), atrial fibrillation (AF), and stroke.

With a median follow-up of almost 14 years, participants in the group with the most compensatory sleep (quartile 4) were 19% less likely to develop heart disease than those with the least (quartile 1). In the subgroup of patients with daily sleep deprivation, those with the most compensatory sleep had a 20% lower risk of developing heart disease than those with the least. The analysis did not show any differences between men and women.

Mr. Zechen Liu added, "Our results show that those who have the most 'catch-up' sleep at weekends have significantly lower rates of heart disease than those with the least."

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: heartdisease; sleep
The “quartile 4” that did best ranged from 1.3 - 16 hours of extra catch up sleep, over the whole weekend.
1 posted on 09/02/2024 9:22:29 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 09/02/2024 9:23:03 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Not too long ago I read where they said you can’t really “catch up” on sleep. Wasn’t the science settled?


3 posted on 09/02/2024 9:24:39 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: ConservativeMind

I’m convinced not getting enough sleep every night lowers your functional IQ.

And you can’t get it back with a few extra hours on the weekend. You’ve got to get enough sleep every night.


4 posted on 09/02/2024 9:25:24 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Ted Cruz said Jan. 6 was terrorism; don't forget that the next time you vote.)
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To: ConservativeMind

When my cats sleep, I sleep.


5 posted on 09/02/2024 9:28:21 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz……


6 posted on 09/02/2024 10:57:01 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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“You’ve got to get enough sleep every night.”
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I get an immediate four hours sleep. Wake up, two hours on my Smartphone, another two hours about dawn. One more hour in the afternoon (hammock).

Missing ANY of that finds me sleepy and exhausted.


7 posted on 09/02/2024 5:58:56 PM PDT by Does so (Our Zoo-Animals are Safe--For Now...! 🇺🇦.....)
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