Highlights

  • A new study finds that extra sleep during weekends is beneficial for heart
  • An additional hour of sleep during the weekend reduces the risk of CVD
  • 2 hours or more of additional weekend sleep has the most significant effect

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Catching up on extra hours of sleep during the weekend might be good for your heart: study

A new study has found that catching up on sleep during weekends might help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease significantly. 2 hours or more of additional weekend sleep has a huge impact when you get 6 hours or lesser sleep during the week.

Catching up on extra hours of sleep during the weekend might be good for your heart: study

Do you tend to oversleep during the weekend? A new study conducted by Nanjing Medical University in China has concluded that this might actually be good for you! Analyzing data on 3400 US adults, compiled from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, or NHANES for short, the researchers made some astonishing findings on weekend catch-up sleep.

The NHANES aimed to gather data on participants’ sleeping hours during both weekends and weekdays, as well as if they had any or all of the following risk factors: heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes mellitus. Analysis of the data from this survey showed that adults aged 20 or older who slept an hour longer on weekends than on weekdays had lower rates of stroke, coronary artery disease, and angina.

In addition, adults who slept less than six hours on weekdays, and got two or more extra hours of sleep on the weekend, had the most significant reduction in this risk. Perhaps paradoxically though, there didn’t seem to be any association between weekend catch-up sleep in adults who slept for more than six hours on weekdays.

This isn’t the first study conducted on sleep and the risk of cardiovascular disease either, as prior studies by both Nanjing researchers and researchers at other institutions have shown that there is a significant correlation between heart disease risk, diabetes mellitus, obesity, high blood pressure, and even depression.

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