The study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, said that people who sleep and wake up at widely different times each day have a 26 percent increased risk of developing a potentially fatal heart condition.
The researchers found that this elevated risk occurred regardless of whether these people had a term sleep Recommended (seven to nine hours) every night.
The team of researchers, led by Jean-Philippe Chabaud, a senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Eastern Ontario in Canada, concluded that “sleep regularity may be more important than adequate sleep duration in terms of risk of developing diabetes.” With heart disease Vascular”.
During the study, researchers analyzed data from more than 72,000 people who wore activity trackers for seven days to record their sleep patterns.
Based on this data, the researchers calculated the degree of regularity of their sleep, according to the UPI news agency.
The researchers found that people with highly variable sleep patterns (they sleep and wake up at different times each day) were more likely to have a heart attack, or StrokeOr death related to heart problems.
The analysis showed that a greater percentage of people who slept regularly got the recommended sleep duration (61 percent) compared to 48 percent of people with irregular sleep.
The researchers hypothesized that irregular sleep patterns may negatively affect heart health by disrupting how the body regulates blood sugar levels. And cholesterolresistance to infections, and immune system functions.
