A study published in the scientific journal Neurology recommends that individuals with sleep problems may be at a higher risk of having a stroke. Sleep issues include getting excessive or insufficient sleep, long naps, poor quality sleep, snoring, snorting, and sleep apnea. The worldwide study involved 4,496 individuals and found that those with 5 or more sleep-related symptoms had an even higher danger of stroke. The research study does not show a causal relationship, however rather an association between sleep problems and stroke threat. Researchers advise that enhancing sleep habits should be a focus for stroke avoidance and further research study.
Research study finds the quantity of sleep, snoring, and sleep apnea are linked to higher stroke danger.
A new research study in Neurology finds an association in between sleep problems and an increased threat of stroke. Researchers stress the importance of addressing sleep concerns for stroke avoidance and call for additional research study into sleep-related interventions.
People who have sleep problems might be most likely to have a stroke, according to a study released in the April 5, 2023, online problem of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Sleep issues included getting excessive or insufficient sleep, taking long naps, having poor quality sleep, snoring, snorting and sleep apnea. In addition, those who had five or more of these symptoms had an even higher danger of stroke. The study does not reveal that sleeping issues cause stroke. It only reveals an association.
Sleep problems consist of getting too much or too little sleep, long naps, bad quality sleep, snoring, snorting, and sleep apnea. Sleep issues included getting too much or too little sleep, taking long naps, having bad quality sleep, snoring, snorting and sleep apnea. Individuals who slept for too many or too few hours were more most likely to have a stroke than individuals who slept a typical number of hours. A total of 162 of those who had a stroke got less than five hours of sleep, compared to 43 of those who did not have a stroke. Researchers likewise looked at breathing issues during sleep, including snoring, snorting, and sleep apnea.
” Not only do our outcomes suggest that individual sleep problems might increase a persons threat of stroke but having more than 5 of these signs might lead to five times the threat of stroke compared to those who do not have any sleep issues,” said study author Christine Mc Carthy, MB, BCh, BAO, of University of Galway in Ireland. “Our outcomes suggest that sleep problems ought to be an area of focus for stroke avoidance.”
The international research study included 4,496 individuals, consisting of 2,243 people who had a stroke who were matched to 2,253 individuals who did not have a stroke. The average age of participants was 62.
Participants were asked about their sleep behaviors consisting of the number of hours of sleep they got, sleep quality, napping, snoring, snorting and breathing problems throughout sleep.
Individuals who slept for a lot of or too few hours were more most likely to have a stroke than people who slept a typical variety of hours. An overall of 162 of those who had a stroke got less than 5 hours of sleep, compared to 43 of those who did not have a stroke. And 151 of those who had a stroke got more than 9 hours of sleep a night, compared to 84 of those who did not have a stroke.
Scientists discovered that people who got less than five hours of sleep were 3 times more likely to have a stroke than those who got seven hours of sleep on average. People who got more than nine hours of sleep were more than two times as likely to have a stroke than those who got 7 hours a night.
People who took naps longer than one hour were 88% most likely to have a stroke than those who did not.
Scientists also took a look at breathing problems during sleep, consisting of snoring, snorting, and sleep apnea. People who snored were 91% more most likely to have stroke than those who did not and individuals who snorted were almost three times most likely to have a stroke than those who did not. Individuals with sleep apnea were nearly 3 times more likely to have a stroke than those who did not.
Following substantial adjusting for other factors that might affect the threat of stroke such as cigarette smoking, exercise, anxiety, and alcohol usage, the outcomes remained similar.
” With these results, physicians might have earlier conversations with people who are having sleep issues,” Mc Carthy said. “Interventions to improve sleep may also decrease the danger of stroke and need to be the topic of future research study.”
A restriction of the study was that individuals reported their own symptoms of sleep issues, so the info may not have actually been precise.
Recommendation: “Sleep Patterns and the Risk of Acute Stroke: Results from the INTERSTROKE International Case-Control Study” by Christine Eileen Mc Carthy, Salim Yusuf, Conor Judge, Alberto Alvarez-Iglesias, Graeme J. Hankey, Shahram Oveisgharan, Albertino Damasceno, Helle Klingenberg Iversen, Annika Rosengren, Alvaro Avezum, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Denis Xavier, Xingyu Wang, Sumathy Rangarajan and Martin ODonnell, 5 April 2013, Neurology.DOI: 10.1212/ WNL.0000000000207249.
The research study was supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Canadian Stroke Network, Swedish Research Council, Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation, The Health & & Medical Care Committee of the Regional Executive Board, Region Västra Götaland, Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada), Pfizer (Canada), Merck, Sharp and Dohme, UK Chest and UK Heart and Stroke.