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[헤럴드경제=박혜림 기자] “People who take frequent naps are at risk for health”
It is common knowledge that naps are good for health and energizing. However, studies have found the opposite. People who take frequent naps are more likely to develop high blood pressure and stroke than those who don’t, a study found.
According to CNN broadcast on the 26th, a research team from Zhongnan University in China found that people who nap on a regular basis were more likely to develop high blood pressure and stroke than those who never nap.
Those who nap were 12% more likely to develop high blood pressure and 24% more likely to develop stroke than those who did not. In particular, those under the age of 60 and those who nap regularly had a 20% higher risk of high blood pressure than those who did not, and those over the age of 60 had a 10% higher risk. The results were similar when excluding those with high risk of high blood pressure, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and sleep disorders.
Michael Grandner, a clinical psychologist at Banner University in the US, explained the results of the research by the Zhongnan University research team: “Napping a nap may mean not getting enough sleep during the night, which is linked to poor health.”
In fact, the UK Biobank analyzed based on the data of 358,000 participants who submitted their nap habit information from 2006 to 2010, and as a result, most of the participants who nap regularly were ▷smokers ▷ingestion of alcohol once a day ▷ It was found that he suffered from sleep disorders.
Raj Dasgupta, an associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) Keke School of Medicine, said, “We see naps as warning signs of fundamental sleep disturbances. It can lead to diabetes,” he said.
However, CNN reported that the Zhongnan University study had limitations in that it only collected nap frequency, excluding nap duration, and relied only on participants’ self-reports about their naps.
Meanwhile, the study was published in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal ‘Hypertension’. The AHA added sleep time as one of the eight essential indicators for heart and brain health in June this year. The remaining indicators are diet, exercise, smoking cessation, weight, blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar.
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