During the day a nap can be linked to a higher risk of early death, according to a large new study.
The discovery was made by researchers who keep sleeping habits of more than 86,000 healthy adult adults.
They discovered that those who regularly nap – especially in the early afternoon – die more often than those who did not do that.
The study, presented on the Sleep 2025 Conference, found the risk of death of a maximum of 20 percent with frequent diapers.
Experts say that sleepiness during the day can be a warning signal of disturbed or of poor quality night’s rest, and may indicate underlying health problems such as sleep disorders, dementia or heart failure.
Professor James Rowley, from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, who was not involved in the study, said the findings should influence how doctors ask patients about sleep.
“The most important message at home is that if a doctor asks about the sleeping habits of a patient, they also have to ask for a nap,” he said Medcape Medical news.
‘In other words, doctors should ask their patients:’ Do you take a nap during the day? ‘
Researchers discovered that longer naps, inconsistent Dutch schedules and naps naps around noon, can increase the risk of early death
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The study was aimed at middle -aged adults who did not work night shifts and in the beginning had no major health problems.
This helped to exclude other explanations for excessive sleepiness during the day and suggests that the link with earlier death is not only due to existing disease or lifestyle factors.
The participant’s sleep was rated for a week, with the help of Actigraphy-one method for monitoring the sleep-wake patterns of a person using a small, watch-like device called an Actigraph.
During the day, Nuten was defined as sleep between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.
On average, the participants nap for about 24 minutes, with about a third of the naps who took between 9 and 11 am in the morning.
During a follow-up period of 11 years, 5,189 of the participants died and in general, researchers noted that as people got older, they slept longer later in the day.
After adjusting potentially confusing lifestyle factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption and nocturnal sleep duration, the results showed that a less consistent nap of routine was associated with an increased risk of mortality of 14 percent.
Scientists discovered that the highest risk of death was seen in people who slept the longest during the day, where people who take a nap between 11 am and 1 pm with an increased risk of seven percent.
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Chief researcher, Professor Chenlu Gao, from the Harvard Medical School, said: ‘Our study fills a gap in knowledge by showing that it is not alone or dut, but how long, how variable and when they are napping can be meaningful indicators for future health risk.
‘Although many studies have investigated the connections between sleep and death, they have largely focused on night’s sleep.
‘Duting, however, is an important part of the 24-hour weak wake cycle and can bear its own health implications.
“Our findings suggest that certain nut patterns can serve as early indications of declining health.”
The researchers warned that further research is needed to better understand the biological paths that are based on these associations.
They noted that longer or more irregular naps can reflect underlying health problems, such as heart conditions, type 2 diabetes, depression and dementia.
Other studies suggest that the explanation can be with the impact on our circadian rhythms-the natural sleep-wake cycles that determine a large number of physical functions.
The experts, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, also argued that sleeping during the day the ability of the brain to erase waste that builds up during the day.
After a milestone study last year, the findings suggested that almost half of all cases of Alzheimer’s disease – the most common cause of dementia – can be prevented by tackling 14 lifestyle factors.
These include hearing loss, high cholesterol, loss of eyesight and lack of exercise.
Experts claimed that the study, published in the prestigious magazine The Lancet, delivered more hope than ‘ever before’ that the condition that can be prevented of the lives of millions.
Alzheimer’s disease affects 982,000 people in the UK.
Alzheimer UK analysis of Alzheimer’s UK research showed that 74,261 people died of dementia in 2022 compared to 69.178 a year earlier, making it the biggest murderer in the country.
One estimate of 2019 brought the annual death toll at 70,000 people a year with the health problems that the NHS cost £ 700 million every year to treat.
The WHO places the annual global deadly toll of physical inactivity of approximately 2 million a year, making it one of the top 10 of the main causes of global death and handicap.
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