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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What is the Meaning of Cardiovascular Disease? - Heart 3

Illustration of heart (credit to Harvard University)

Long time ago, I myself “confused” with the words of hearts diseases, heart attacks, coronary diseases, cardiovascular diseases and other diseases relate to hearts.

I find out that cardiovascular was combination of “cardio” and vascular words:

1) Cardio means heart. The diseases relate to cardio (heart) may include:

- Congenital heart disease

- Heart failure

- Dilated cardiomyopathy

- Heart valve abnormalities

- Myocardial infarction

- Abnormal heart rythem

- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

The heart, just for illustration (Credit to Everyday Health)

2) Terms of vascular diseases relate to blood vessels diseases that connect to veins and arteries in our body. Disorder could lead to health problems from severe to death.

Some vascular diseases are:

- abdominal aortic aneurysm

- stroke

- peripheral artery diseases

- arteriovenous malformation

- blood clots (pulmonary embolism)

- critical limb ischemia

- chronic venous insufficiency

- deep vein thrombosis

Cardiovascular diseases caused more than 800,000 death every year, 840,768 death in 2016. 1 die in 37 seconds due to this diseases.

Heart (cardio) disease alone is number 1 causes of death in the USA and the world. About 635,260 death due to cardiac diseases in the USA in 2016.

The fact that more men than women die due to cardiovascular diseases in young age, but after 65, both men and women are almost equally affected by diseases.

Men more smoke cigarette than women. Smoke is one of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.

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Why Sugary Drinks Cause of Heart Diseases? – Heart 2

Sugary drinks sold in groceries

Based on observations to 118,000 of health professionals for 3 decades that sugary drinks lead to higher risk heart diseases.

Another study of 42 thousands men shown that drink for one can (200 ml) sweetened beverages may increase risk of heart relate diseases.

Consumption of two cans everyday improves heart failure to death up to 23%. The sugary drinks may include soda and sport (energy) drinks.

In addition to sugary drinks, other risk factors of heart diseases are:

- smoking tobacco

- less physical activities

- poor quality diets

- high blood pressure

- diabetes

- stress, anger and depression

Illustration effect of soft drink to body (credit to The Telegraph)

Why Sugary Drinks Cause of Heart Diseases?

Sugar associates with atherosclerosis in which arteries are “blocked” to bring oxygen to heart and to all parts of body.

We know that higher blood sugar level relates to diabetes. This diseases contribute to higher risk of atherosclerosis, and double the chance to get a stroke or heart attacks.

Other substances to cause atherosclerosis are:

- calcium

- cholesterol (bad cholesterol)

- fat

Heart diseases or cardiovascular disease (CVD) responsible for higher mortality rate in the world and USA.

The most death in the USA is caused by CVD. Top 5 diseases lead to death are:

- Heart diseases

- Cancer

- Unintentional injuries

- Chronic lower respiratory disease

- Stroke and cerebrovascular diseases

Do you like sugary drinks? How many glasses or ml you consume sugary drinks each day?

What is the Irregular Heartbeats? - Heart 1

Illustration for heartbeat

(credit to cayuga medical associates)

Normal heartbeat is from 60 to 100 beats per minute for adults between 18 to 40 years old.

Medical term for “Irregular Heartbeat” also called as “atrial fibrillation” (A Fib) is developed to people in the age 40 or over.

It is because heart of older people reduces pumping efficiency up to 30%. In longer time, this condition could cause some diseases or abnormality:

- angina (pain in chest)

- heart failure

- stroke

- blood clots

- heart palpitations

In addition to less efficiency of heart pumping, other factors could affect on “A Fib” are:

- coronary artery disease

- high blood pressure

- thickening of the heart wall

- too much alcohol consumption

- intense emotional turmoil.

Normal and irregular heartbeats

(credit to mature living)

There are around 4.4 million people affected by “atrial fibrillation” in the America. It is estimated to increase year by year due to increasing of life expectancy.

The best way to manage “irregular heartbeats” is visit medical doctors or cardiologists. They may design the best therapy case by case or just give prescription drugs.

However, there are simple ways to control “A FB.” Based on several sources, People do the following methods:

- reduce cholesterol and high blood pressure

- healthy diets (no smoke and less alcohol)

- doing daily exercises

Hope, we could manage our heartbeats in the normal range.