For heart health, sleep is no less important than nutrition

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A study has shown that sleep is no less important than proper nutrition for maintaining heart health. This is the conclusion reached by scientists from the United States.

If you want your heart to be in great shape for as long as possible, be sure to get enough sleep. Cardiovascular diseases are still the main killers of humanity, and these include heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, heart failure, angina pectoris, and other pathologies. It is because of them that people most often die prematurely. Unfortunately, many victims of these diseases are not even aware of their existence, since not all of them are symptomatic. A new study has shown that the more a person sleeps, the better it affects their heart health.

The study's findings are based on data on the quality of sleep of more than 2,000 middle-aged and older people. Those who slept less than 7 hours a day had an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, including type 2 diabetes with obesity and high blood pressure. That's why it's so important to pay no less attention to sleep than to healthy food.

Experts traditionally recommend that adults sleep at least 7 hours a day. At the same time, if you sleep only 5-6 hours on weekdays, and on weekends you allow yourself to sleep for 10 hours or more, then this tactic to correct all the consequences of sleep deprivation will not help you. You cannot compensate for the lack of sleep that was observed on all previous days on some days. It is necessary to sleep 7 hours every day, this is very important for many aspects of health.