Having trouble sleeping? If so, you could have a moderately higher risk of having a heart attack, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
In a recent study, the risk of heart attack in people with insomnia ranged from 27 percent to 45 percent greater than for people who rarely experienced trouble sleeping.
Researchers related heart attack risks to three major insomnia symptoms. Compared to people who reported never or almost never having these problems, people who:
- had trouble falling asleep almost daily in the last month had a 45 percent higher heart attack risk;
- had problems staying asleep almost every night in the last month had a 30 percent higher heart attack risk; and
- didn't wake up feeling refreshed in the morning more than once a week had a 27 percent higher heart attack risk.
"Sleep problems are common and fairly easy to treat," said Lars Erik Laugsand, M.D., lead researcher and internist from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Public Health in Trondheim. "So it's important that people are aware of this connection between insomnia and heart attack and talk to their doctor if they're having symptoms."
Heart attack risk also increases with each additional insomnia symptom, researchers said.
Read more: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111024164706
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