Great news, nap lovers! An occasional nap -- one or two a week -- might help you live longer by cutting your risk for heart attack, strokes and heart disease in half.
Frequent naps initially appeared to increase a person's heart risk by 67%, but that disappeared after accounting for other risk factors, the study authors noted.
Dr. Martha Gulati, a cardiologist who is editor-in-chief of CardioSmart.org, the American College of Cardiology's patient website, said it makes sense that frequent napping could be a red flag for health problems. "I worry that somebody that naps every day isn't getting good sleep," she said."Somebody who takes six or seven naps a week, I ask, are you not sleeping well at night? Is that how you're catching up with your sleep?"
Gulati added,"But I am still going to enjoy my Sunday naps, and now say I am working on lowering my risk for heart disease when my husband asks.""The mechanisms are not straightforward," she said."We assume that occasional napping might be a result of a physiological compensation allowing to decrease the stress due to insufficient nocturnal sleep and, thus, could have a beneficial effect on cardiovascular disease events.
Though she said the results should first be confirmed by other studies, Hausler added:"We can say that an occasional nap can potentially decrease cardiovascular disease risk for healthy adults."SOURCES: Nadine Hausler, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland; Marie-Pierre St-Onge, Ph.D., director, Columbia University Irving Medical Center sleep program, New York City; Martha Gulati, M.D., editor-in-chief, CardioSmart.
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