Sleep MORE at least for your heart's sake...


	Sleep MORE at least for your heart's sake...

sohil

6-17-2007 9:33 AM

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6-18-2007 4:34 AM

cementedminds

I never need an excuse to sleep more!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6451c165-34a9-42b5-984c-071eeacd88fa/B8836AA3-8783-412D-B2EB-CCF42AD78C86/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theheart.org/article/797059.do" href="http://www.theheart.org/article/797059.do" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theheart.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theheart.org/article/797059.do">Even small reductions in sleep over time may put healthy persons at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, suggests a new study that found decreased heart-rate variability (HRV) in patients who underwent sleep restriction for just five nights [<A href="http://www.theheart.org/article/797059.do#bib_1"><B>1</B></A>]</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theheart.org/article/797059.do"><P class="news">"Heart-rate variability has been shown to be a good measure of cardiovascular risk," said <B>Dr Siobhan Banks</B> (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), lead author of the study presented here at <B>SLEEP 2007: the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies</B>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theheart.org/article/797059.do"><P class="news">According to Banks, the decrease in HRV and increase in heart rate (HR) seen in this study suggest that sleep restriction may increase strain on the cardiovascular system. This could have implications for people who experience chronic sleep restriction, she said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theheart.org/article/797059.do"><P class="news">Prior evidence has shown that decreased HRV indicates the heart is under strain and has been associated with hypertension as well as shown to be a predictor of mortality after acute MI.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theheart.org/article/797059.do"><B>A marker of risk</B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B8836AA3-8783-412D-B2EB-CCF42AD78C86/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>