Umesh Isalkar, TNN, Feb 25, 2011, 12.10am IST
PUNE: 'Early to bed and early to rise' is a good habit, but 'late to bed and early to rise' may not be a prudent thing to do, says a study published in the 'European Heart Journal'.The University of Warwick in the UK studied 4.7 lakh people across eight countries to establish this equation. "If you sleep less than six hours a night and have a disturbed sleep, you stand a 48 per cent greater chance of developing or dying from heart disease and a 15 per cent greater chance of developing or dying of a stroke," the university team said. "Late to bed and early to rise is a ticking time bomb for health."
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