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A new study finds that irregular sleeping patterns, including catch-up sleep, can negatively affect the body's metabolism, which controls how we function and use energy. It also puts us at a higher risk for chronic diseases like diabetes.
Researchers found that irregular sleep patterns—varying the timing and amount of sleep—increases the risk for cardiovascular disease in people ages 45 to 84. The findings suggest that a regular sleep schedule could help prevent heart disease.
If you have a sleep disorder, you may not get enough sleep or you may not feel rested when you wake up. You may be very sleepy during the daytime. You may have changes in breathing or move around a lot during sleep. Or you may have problems getting to sleep, staying asleep or waking too early.
The sleep-wake patterns of a person with irregular sleep-wake rhythm disorder can vary from day to day. People with this sleep disorder commonly have trouble sleeping at night, experience excessive daytime sleepiness, and take multiple sporadic naps that typically last two to four hours.
The five-year study suggests that an irregular sleep pattern may be a novel and independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), and that maintaining regular sleep patterns could help prevent heart disease just as physical activity, a healthy diet, and other lifestyle measures do, the researchers said.
Sleeping and waking at irregular times and sleeping for short periods can occur due to life circumstances and aren’t medical emergencies. When your sleep schedule is variable in timing and...
A new study has found that not sticking to a regular bedtime and wakeup schedule — and getting different amounts of sleep each night — can put a person at higher risk for obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension, high blood sugar and other metabolic disorders.
An NHLBI-funded study found that an irregular sleep schedule might lead to metabolic disorders such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. The findings were published in the journal Diabetes Care.
The researchers found that participants with the most irregular sleep duration or timing had more than double the risk of developing a CVD event over the follow-up period compared to those with the most regular sleep patterns.
A study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association expands on this insight by showing that adults ages 58-78 with irregular sleep patterns were more likely to have underlying risk factors for heart disease.