Why Sleep Is So Important for People at Risk for Heart Disease
By Agata Blaszczak-Boxe, Contributing Writer | May 25, 2017 12:09pm ET
For people who are at risk for heart disease and diabetes, getting enough sleep may be especially important: Snoozing for less than 6 hours per night may increase their risk of premature death, a new study finds.
People in the study who had a high body mass index (BMI) and elevated cholesterol along with a few other risk factors for heart disease and diabetes — a combination called metabolic syndrome — and slept less than 6 hours per night were twice as likely to die of heart disease or stroke over a nearly 17-year period as people without the syndrome, the researchers found.
http://www.livescience.com/59262-insufficient-sleep-linked-to-premature-death-in-metabolic-syndrome.html
