Sleep deprivation: 5 ways lack of sleep can affect your heart health
1 year, 9 months ago

Sleep deprivation: 5 ways lack of sleep can affect your heart health

Hindustan Times  

Among the heart-healthy habits that could prevent risk of a heart health, a good night's sleep is perhaps the best one. Sleep has many stages and the during the non-rapid eye movement sleep stage, heart rate slows, blood pressure drops, and breathing stabilizes. Sleep deprivation causes increased sympathetic nervous system activity, vasoconstriction and increased heart rate, all of which are detrimental to the heart health," says Dr Pavan Kumar P Rasalkar, Consultant Interventional Cardiology, Fortis Hospital, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore. "Lack of sleep can affect heart in many ways - it can lead to high blood pressure which itself is a risk factor for heart disease and heart attacks. All these ways the lack of sleep can lead to high incidences of heart disease, says Dr Gajinder Goyal, Director - department of Cardiology, Marengo QRG Hospital, Faridabad.

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