A study links sleep and stroke

The results of a recent study published in the journal Neuroscience indicated that middle-aged and older people who sleep more than eight hours a night, or whose sleep periods are longer, have an increased risk of stroke.

“Increasing amounts of sleep may be seen as an early indicator of an increased risk of stroke,” Yu Ling of the University of Cambridge in Britain told Reuters Health. “Doctors could consider adding questions about sleep when interviewing patients, and this may reveal some degree of From the health conditions of patients or any unseen health risks.”

Ling and his medical team said in their report that several previous studies looked at sleep periods and the risk of stroke. They found that both short and long periods of sleep are associated with an increased risk of stroke, and short periods of sleep are associated with a decline in these risks, and long periods of sleep are associated with an increase in these risks. Risks.

They said that studies have not yet examined the relationship between sleep periods and stroke risk over a lifetime.

Ling and his colleagues looked at data from 9,692 men and women between the ages of 42 and 81 who provided data on their sleep duration between 1998-2000 and 2002-2004, and recorded cases of stroke in March of 2009. During the research period, which lasted 9.5 years, 346 cases occurred. Stroke.

The researchers found that for those who sleep more than eight hours, the stroke risk index is 1.46, while for those who sleep less than six hours a night, their risk of stroke increases by 19%.

This index increases to 1.87 for those who are younger, while the index reached a maximum score of 3.75 for those who sleep for periods that vary from short to long.