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Sleep disturbances trigger heart attacks in the Night

sleep-disorder Obstructive sleep apnea or sleep disturbances are usually characterized by snoring raises risk of heart attack at night than during the day. Such a study reveals.

In people with obstructive sleep apnea, or breathing air lines upper or obstructed either in part or all of which cause respiratory tract affected, faltered many times during the night.

New research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, recommends that those who had a heart attack while sleeping in night usually triggered by the presence of obstructive sleep apnea. So the conclusion is made based on observations on 92 people who had suffered a heart attack.

The patients are watched carefully, when the heart attack began. They also examined sleep patterns in a sleep laboratory for 17 days after a heart attack. Continue reading ‘Sleep disturbances trigger heart attacks in the Night’ »