Scientists: long sleep is often a sign of ailments – SakhaNews

IA SakhaNews. Sleeping more than eight hours a day can be considered a sign of addiction to stroke in the elderly. Scientists from the University of Cambridge say that too long sleep is often a sign of ill health.

The study was conducted over several years by a research team of one of Britain’s leading universities. The results showed that people who sleep an average of more than the recommended eight hours a day, the risk of stroke earn increased by 50% compared with those who are not too high.

At the same time, according to data on the results of the experiment, people who sleep less than six hours a day, also at increased risk of stroke, although not as significant – only 18% higher than that of men, following the recommended norm, according to Tass.

Dr Greg Jacobs at the Center of sleep disorders at the Medical Faculty of the University of Massachusetts. According to him, over the past decade research has shown that eight hours of daily (or rather nightly) sleep can only hurt the person. Ideally, he said, is a seven-hour sleep. “Sleep less, and you have a real chance of dying sooner, sleep more – and the chance to timeless transition into another world becomes even higher,” reports BBC BBC.

Another expert on sleep, a professor of cardiovascular medicine Franco Capucci from the University of Warwick in the UK, “advises not to panic. All that is between six and eight hours, in his view, is the norm. At least because quite accurately measure the duration of sleep is extremely problematic.

“In the study of sleep, – he says, – we tend to rely on their own assessment of the people. And they, for the most part, unable to up to a minute to say how long they slept “.