Met this at night, watch out for heart attacks!

According to the researchers, the findings suggest that heart patients need to be examined and treated for heart problems sleep.

Lead author Lars Frojd, a medical student at the University of Oslo (Norway), said the study showed that sleep loss is common in heart patients and leads to subsequent cardiovascular events.

Up to half of heart patients suffer from insomnia, and this greatly increases the risk of heart attack, stroke or other serious cardiovascular events. Shutterstock

The study included more than 1,000 heart patients, with an average age of 62. They had either had a heart attack or had a stent procedure about 16 months ago.

At the start of the study, 45% had insomnia and 24% were using sleeping pills.

During a follow-up of more than 4 years, 225 patients experienced a total of 364 serious cardiac events, including hospitalization for heart attack, restoration of obstructed blood flow, stroke, heart failure, and disease death. Heart.

The results, presented at the European Society of Cardiology meeting, showed that sleep loss accounted for 16% of recurrent cardiac events, according to MedicineNet.

Thus, sleep loss is the third leading cause of recurrent cardiac events, after smoking (27%) and inactivity (21%). Shutterstock

Thus, insomnia is the third cause of heart events relapse, second only to smoking (27%) and inactivity (21%).

The study was also published in the British Association for the Study of Sleep Sleep Advances.

This means that 16 per cent of recurrent serious cardiovascular events could be avoided if no sleep was lost, the authors say.

The authors note that more research is needed to find out whether insomnia treatments help heart patients. MedicineNet.