It leads to the increase in pressure.
Afternoon NAP is harmful to health: it causes high blood pressure, and that, in turn, to heart attack and stroke.
About this at the annual conference of the American society for the study of hypertension, said experts at the Mayo clinic of Minnesota in the United States.
They conducted a study that showed fans of take a NAP after lunch, have hypertension for 13-19 percent more often those who are awake to night.
For their study, the researchers analyzed combined data of nine previous studies on the subject of daytime sleep. In total were studied medical records of almost 113,000.
Speaking about the results of the experiment at the conference, his head Visit Campsite said that “further studies are needed to better examine the Association of sleep duration with diet, physical exercise, chronic diseases, but it will be the second phase of work, which follows from the first, and he talks about the harmfulness NAP.
Earlier, by the way, the University of Tokyo also reported that daytime sleep may be associated with premature death. They watched as more than 300,000 people. It was tracked 21 health indicators: cholesterol, blood pressure, hemoglobin level, sugar in blood and so on.
The result revealed significant difference between medical conditions and people who like to sleep after lunch for at least 40 minutes, and those who are not practicing.
The first tests were generally worse, including high blood pressure, cholesterol and metabolic disorder. But most importantly, they had an increased risk of premature death.
However, all this mainly concerns a long sleep that lasts more than an hour. And here is a short (15-30 minutes) is unlikely to harm the body.
So Dr. Giuseppe Crippa advises not to take anything for granted. Like, if the person is well, very tired and his body needs rest, you should not force yourself to stay steadfast tin soldier.
