{"id":14617,"date":"2019-12-27T21:06:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T21:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=14617"},"modified":"2019-12-27T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T21:06:15","slug":"study-too-much-sleep-raises-stroke-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/sleep\/study-too-much-sleep-raises-stroke-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Too Much Sleep Raises Stroke Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For most of us, getting too much sleep is rare, but you should know that doing so can raise your risk of stroke by 85%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How excess sleep can hurt<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New research published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Neurology<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has linked excessive sleep and daytime naps to a greater stroke risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A team from China looked at data from 31,750 people who had an average age of 62 with no history of stroke or other serious health issues. Among the participants:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 24% reported sleeping for a minimum of 9 hours a night<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 8% frequently took naps that were more than 90 minutes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They followed the group for an average of 6 years and during that time, 1,557 people had strokes. The participants who slept for at least 9 hours nightly had a 23% greater stroke risk compared to all of those who only slept less than 9 hours nightly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People who napped for more than 90 minutes daily AND slept for more than 9 hours at night had an 85% higher risk of stroke compared to those who only napped and slept in moderation.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sleep quality also factored into assessing a stroke risk. Participants who reported poor sleep quality had a 29% greater risk of stroke than those who said their sleep quality was good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The researchers adjusted for factors such as diabetes, smoking and hypertension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Caveats<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This study doesn\u2019t prove causality. It was only observational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, the results did not factor in things like sleep apnea or other sleep disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, the study was only done on older, healthy Chinese adults. The results may be different if done on younger participants, non-Chinese adults or those who were not healthy.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the lead researcher, Dr. Xiaomin Zhang, pointed out, \u201cIn addition, long napping and sleeping may suggest an overall inactive lifestyle, which is also related to increased risk of stroke.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of us, getting too much sleep is rare, but you should know that doing so can raise your risk of stroke by 85%. How excess sleep can hurt New research published in Neurology has linked excessive sleep and daytime naps to a greater stroke risk. A team from China looked at data from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[693,750],"class_list":["post-14617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleep","tag-sleep","tag-stroke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}