If you need another reason to improve your sleep, here’s one: It can help your heart
can help prevent cardiovascular disease, and that poor sleep can help doctors identify who might be at risk of the condition.
Normally, a person’s blood pressure is expected to fall at night by 10% or more from daytime levels, a change that scientists call the “nocturnal dip.”The dip appears to help keep blood pressure lower during the day. Scientists have found that blood pressure in people who get only five or six hours of sleep a night don’t experience the dip.
Interruptions during sleep matter too. Poor quality sleep interferes with the body’s normal rest and repair cycles, scientists believe, disrupting its ability to manage inflammation, the body’s natural immune response to injury that is damaging if it becomes chronic. That appears to be true even in people who think they’re getting enough sleep, according to research by a group of scientists at Columbia University.
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