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Article: Sleep disorders linked to heart failure.(Health)(Disease/Disorder overview)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2008
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Byline: Matthew Trojan For The Register-Guard
During my cardiology fellowship, I was fascinated by everything related to the heart. Because I was curious about studies that linked lack of sleep with an increased risk of heart failure, I tried a personal experiment.
When I kept long hours on call and was extremely sleep deprived, I occasionally would check my blood pressure. And sure enough, my blood pressure was elevated during those times, giving real-life validity to the studies I'd read.
Today, there's even more compelling (and more scientific) research showing that too little sleep raises the risk of heart disease.
In 2003, ...