DECRYPTION – Le Figaro analyzes the results of a large study based on the follow-up of some 7200 people, without any particular health problem.
Sleeping well is essential for good health. This common sense rule has just been confirmed by a study carried out at the Cardiovascular Research Center in Paris by a team from Inserm. The work, the preliminary results of which were presented on Saturday August 27 at the congress of the European Society of Cardiology in Barcelona, demonstrates that quality sleep reduces the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke.
Conversely, disturbed nights are associated with a higher risk of developing these cardiovascular pathologies. The analysis has not yet been reviewed by independent scientists.
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This work is based on the follow-up of some 7200 people, without any particular health problem, recruited between 2008 and 2012 for a routine check-up in a Parisian preventive medical centre. The volunteers, aged 60 on average and 40% women, subsequently answered questionnaires every two years about their…
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