A recent Norwegian study reported that sleeplessness increase risk of heart failure. However, the study does not found any causative links of sleeplessness with heart failure but just increasing the risk of incidence. Insomnia aka sleeplessness is a major health problem that can be caused by a variety of physical and mental problems.
The research results have been published in the European Heart Journal.
Insomnia is mainly diagnosed with three main symptoms. If a person experience: Trouble falling asleep, unable to stay asleep and waking up in the morning without feeling refreshed.
A sleep study was conducted by a team of researchers including Dr. Lars Laugsand, Researcher, Department of Public Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. According to Dr. Lars, the team found a concrete evidence and association between three major symptoms of insomnia and incidences of heart failure. The symptoms increase the risk of heart failure but do not cause heart failure, the researcher said.
Around 54, 279 people, aged between 20 – 18 years who were suffered from symptoms of insomnia, and were monitored over a period of eleven years. All the participants were free from heart disease at the time of enrollment. The participants need to answer a questionnaire, and they need to answer about the difficulty in falling, staying asleep, and how they woke up in the morning.
Other factors including nature of work, work shifts, blood pressure, sex, marital status, physical activity, food, anxiety, depression, alcohol and smoking habits were also considered.
At the end of the study, the researchers found more than three-fold (353%) increase in risk of heart failure in patients with all three symptoms. Around 1412 cases were diagnosed with heart failure and were suffered from all three symptoms of insomnia. However, no such risks were associated in patients with one or two symptoms of insomnia.
The risk of heart failure is more in patients who experience difficulties in falling asleep or staying asleep daily. The other factor that increases the risk is at least once a week incidence of morning wake ups without refreshment.
Upon considering other risk factors such as anxiety and depression, the risk of heart failure was found to be four folds (425%) in patients with all three symptoms of insomnia.
So, stay cool, sleep well. If not, consult your healthcare provider right away.
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