Could Oversleeping Cause Cardiovascular Diseases? - Heart 4

Normal and healthy sleep for adult

(credit to Amerisleep).

We all need sleep to repair “damages” of our body due to many daily activities. Other functions of sleep are:

- removing waste

- improving immunity

- processing memories and learning development for brain

The question then how long should we sleep for better health of our body? Many resources mentioned that sleeping between 7 and 9 hours is considered good and healthy.

Some experts described the length of sleep whether too short or too long has health risk to several diseases.

Oversleeping, more than 8 hours, will increase the risk of some diseases, especially cardiovascular relate diseases.

Illustration of health problems to oversleeping

(credit to verywell health).

Some diseases connect to sleeping too much are:

- heart disease

- stroke

- diabetes

- Obesity

- Cognitive impairment

- Impaired fertility

- Depression

In case of cardiovascular diseases, hours of sleep and its risks are following:

1) 8 hours sleep more per night

- double risk to have chest pain (angina)

- 10% risk to get coronary heart disease.

2) 9 hours sleep more per night

- 34% risk to get heart diseases.

3) 11 hours sleep more per night

- 38% to 44% risk to get coronary heart disease.

Luckily, who have been slept about 7.5 hours per night will less likely (reduce) by 18% to get heart diseases.

How many hours do you sleep per night? Hope, no less and no more than healthy range.

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