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Stroke Risk Spikes In Healthy Adults Who Don't Get Enough Sleep
hessian writes "Attention, busy middle-aged folks. You may be healthy and thin, but if you habitually sleep less than six hours a night, you still could be boosting your risk of a stroke. That's the surprising conclusion of a new study being presented Monday at SLEEP 2012, the annual meeting of the nation's sleep experts."
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Time to cut back on that gaming all nighters once you hit 30 then. Need to get as many as possible until then!
The SLEEP 2012 was a total snooze fest.
Previewing comments are for sissies!
Yawn...
Always trying to get us to sleep more, they only want you to sleep more so they can keep making their fat profits at your expense.
Wake up sheeple!
Perhaps it's time I stopped having that late night stroke and got some sleep instead.
Interesting! Could it be that using the BMI as a determining factor in who is healthy and who is not is in itself a flawed concept? Perhaps the amount of sleep needed is related to caloric intake, and the caloric intake necessary to maintain a BMI less than 25 is not sufficient to avoid stroke? Certainly there is more here than meets the eye. I'd strongly recommend much further study before anyone changes their lifestyles due to this study.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
TFA, at least, doesn't even mention segmented sleep or how that might alter this alleged dynamic. Since there seems to be irrefutable evidence that the Industrial Age is the specific cause of this change in our sleep patterns and a prescriptive (if subconscious) effort to pigeonhole our sleep into one neat temporal compartment, why do these supposed experts continue to promote the Industrial Age myth of a single eight-hour sleep cycle? Why don't they consider the possibility that it might be our efforts as a civilization to force our sleep patterns into a single tightly regimented box that is causing the increased risk of stroke and other problems?
Less sleep usually correlated with more stress for me, which I didn't see mentioned in the news blurb. Sleeping more won't necessarily make that stress disappear (and may exacerbate it).
Also, 4.5x more risk in a population with a very small baseline risk can be misleading?
FTFA
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"Attention, busy middle-aged folks. You may be healthy and thin, but if you habitually sleep less than six hours a night, you still could be boosting your risk of a stroke."
That sure grabs a headline, but seriously. What proof do you have that that is the cause? What if there's something broken elsewhere, that we don't know about? That's not nearly as sensational enough for Mainstream Media, though.
At least for the purpose of argument, I'm assuming that the statistical epidemiology is accurate; but that leaves me very curious indeed about what the mechanism is.
I wouldn't have expected getting more or less sleep to affect the structural integrity of some unlucky blood vessel in your brain. Are there any clues about why such a dramatic effect might occur?
I am on 96 hours without any sleep. I am in no danger of a str-aghhhh!
I mean this is a study by a bunch of guys who are promoting sleep, and they are saying more sleep is better for you because it can prevent strokes. Hmmmmm
Just because you are wrong and I called you out on it doesn't mean I am a Troll.
That must be a quiet meeting.
Task Mangler
In people who fell into normal weight categories -- a body mass index of 18.5 to nearly 25 -- those who reported sleeping less than six hours a night were at about 4.5 times greater risk of developing stroke symptoms than whose who slept seven and eight hours a night. Surprisingly, that increase wasn't apparent in overweight or obese people who slept less
So what it is saying is that your best move is to pack on the pounds.
This is a chicken-and-egg mystery. Concluding that the health risk is because of bad sleep is just a statistically qualified conclusion.
People often cannot sleep because of a lot of different problems. Most of them are diffuse, and sadly often treated by medicines that just help you sleep or similar.
Finding the cause of why you can't sleep is very time consuming and often impossible by current technology, unless you believe Dr House is a representative of the average doctor.
The heart is a muscle like any other; it needs to have a break. This is called sleep and should last at least 5-6 hours every day. When you cannot sleep, it might be because the circulation of blood is somehow hindered, or something else sending warning signals to our brain that something is wrong. Thus one gets alert and one cannot sleep.
If one has trouble sleeping over a long period, the heart muscle gets tired. A very dangerous situation likely to end in a stroke.
(Mind you, I am not a doctor.)
So if you reduce your sleep time even more, the risk of stroke decreases?
all the coffee we drink offsets the odds of a stroke :P
Stroke Risk Spikes In Healthy Adults Who Don't Get Enough Sleep
Thank God I'm an unhealthy adult who doesn't get enough sleep.
I want to mention that lack of sleep can also cause a condition named CSR in your eyes. After sleeping less than 6 hrs for 3 years and then few nights with 4 hr sleep, I got this in my eyes. Then I learnt that there is no cure for this and it can lead to vision loss. Moreover it is mainly reported by the people who have better then average eyesight. Since then I try to take 8 hr sleep and its gone. I hop it does not come back.
So, slashdotter be careful.
Did they correct for smoking? Skinny people who stay up all night generally smoke
A few days ago http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20120607/coffee-may-help-turn-tide-on-alzheimers-disease came out. so sleep and get alzheimers or stay awake and get a stroke... I'd consider skydiving lessons...
That's OK because I drink lots of coffee to combat lack of sleep.
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
The main cause of stroke is high blood pressure. They should phrase it "sleep dep increases blood pressure". I guess they get more media bang for the buck if they say stroke.
... sounds like something anyone could lose sleep over.
Let's panic. That's the proper way to respond to studies, right?
Is someone from Usenix sneaking into the Sleep panels? Come-on, fess up... ;-)
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Oh, the beautiful gloss of greality!