CBS NEWS – Busy week have you catching up on sleep during the weekend?
That may be good for your heart health, according to new research.
Researchers found the risk of heart disease fell about 20% for people who slept in on the weekends to catch up on sleep lost earlier in the week.
The study used data from 90,903 people, whose sleep patterns were self-reported. In the study, sleep deprivation was defined as having less than seven hours of sleep per night.
A total of 19,816 participants were categorized as sleep deprived and underwent a health follow-up over a decade later.
“Our results show that for the significant proportion of the population in modern society that suffers from sleep deprivation, those who have the most ‘catch-up’ sleep at weekends have significantly lower rates of heart disease … ”
