Sleeping like this reduces the risk of heart failure by 42%

a new study published in the journal Circulation, adults with the healthiest sleep patterns have a 42 percent lower risk of heart failure, without taking into account other risk factors. Healthy sleep patterns are: get up in the morning, sleep 7 to 8 hours a day, no frequent insomnia, snoring or daytime drowsiness.
heart failure affects more than 26 million people, new evidence suggests that sleep problems may play a role in the development of heart failure.
the observational study examined the relationship between healthy sleep patterns and heart failure and included data from 40,8802 UK biocosm participants who were recruited between the ages of 37 and 73 (2006-2010). The researchers collected the incidence of heart failure until April 1, 2019, and recorded 5,221 cases of heart failure over a 10-year mid-term follow-up period.
researchers analyzed sleep quality and overall sleep patterns. Measurements of sleep quality include sleep duration, insomnia and snoring, as well as other sleep-related characteristics, such as whether participants are "morning people" or "night owls" and whether they are sleepy during the day (unwittingly dozing or falling asleep during the day).
"We created a healthy sleep score based on these five sleep behaviors. "Our findings underscore the importance of improving overall sleep patterns to prevent heart failure, " said the paper's co-author and director of the Obesity Research Center at Durham University in the United States.
after adjusting for diabetes, high blood pressure, drug use, gene variants, and other covariates, participants with the healthiest sleep patterns had a 42 percent lower risk of heart failure than participants with unhealthy sleep patterns.
researchers also found that the risk of heart failure was independently related: 8 percent lower for early mornings, 12 percent for those who slept seven to eight hours a day, 17 percent less for those who didn't have frequent insomnia, and 34 percent lower for those who reported no sleep during the day.
the study include novelty, forward-looking research design and large sample sizes, the researchers said. (Source: China Science Daily Wenle)
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