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Abnormal Sleep Patterns Linked to Stroke

Sleep patterns in middle-aged women can increase their risk for stroke. The greatest increase in stroke risk (70 percent) was found among women who slept 9 hours or more per night.

A recent study looked at more than 93,000 women between the ages of 50 and 79. After following the group for an average of 7.5 years, the researchers found that women with a sleep duration of 6 hours or less, 8 hours, or 9 hours or more increased the risk of stroke by 14 percent, 24 percent, and 70 percent, respectively, compared with sleeping 7 hours.

Analysis also suggested that the adverse effect of long periods of sleep was not associated with frequent snoring or sleepiness. This means that a sleep pattern which is longer or shorter than the norm could be an independent risk factor for stroke.



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I don't understand this study. It says the more you sleepSleep [S]  [9+ hours] the more your risk of stroke increases?

But yet if you sleepSleep [S] less [7 hours] your risk is decreased?

Isn't sleeping good for you? Could someone please explain?

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Sleeping longer could indicate a health problem like low thyroid, adrenal exhaustion, heart problems, pre-diabetes, etc. which could lead to stroke.

An abnormal pattern in eating, exercise, sleeping, elimination, sexual health, etc. usually indicates an underlying health problem.

Back when I was a young RN they actually took time to ask the patient how they slept.  You can get a lot of good information just by asking a few simple questions and listening to the answers. 

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Oh, very interesting. Learn something new everyday eh? Thanks Reesacat.

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These kind of studies always annoy me. There are so many variables to the equation. For example, maybe the women who slept more were just lazy, and their laziness caused them to be overweight, and maybe lazy overweight people tend to have poorer diets, etc, etc, etc. There are other factors that come into play. You can apply this logic to the outcome of almost any study, which can make it hard to come up with solid evidence to support it, but these kind of question have to be raised or else we will always be plagued by idiotic doctors who take studies like this as truth.
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