Heart attacks are a leading cause of death of both men and women in the United States. The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute reports that each year about 1.2 million people in the United States have heart attacks, and many of them die. A consideration for the increased risk of heart attacks which may not often come to mind has been shown to be insomnia. Bioscience Technology has reported "Insomnia Could Moderately Raise Heart Attack Risk."
According to research which has been reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association if you suffer from insomnia you could have a moderately higher risk of having a heart attack. In this study the risk of having a heart attack in people with insomnia ranged from 27 percent to 45 percent greater than for people who rarely had trouble trouble sleeping.
Lars Erik Laugsand, M.D., lead researcher and internist from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Public Health in Trondheim, has commented “Sleep problems are common and fairly easy to treat. So it’s important that people are aware of this connection between insomnia and heart attack and talk to their doctor if they’re having symptoms.”
According to the researchers up to 33 percent of people in the general population experience some type of insomnia symptom. Studies prior to this have linked insomnia to heart disease, including high blood pressure and heart attacks. There are about 785,000 Americans who have a first-time heart attack in the United States. The reasons behind the association between insomnia and increased risk for heart attacks is not clear. It has been suggested that sleep problems affect heart attack risk factors such as high blood pressure and inflammation.
And so if you are having trouble sleeping well at night it is advisable to determine healthy manners to deal with this problem. Some good natural remedies for insomnia as discussed by Dr. Earl Mindell in his book "Natural Remedies for 150 Ailments" include vitamin B complex, melatonin, inositol, valerian, St. John's wort, regular exercise, meditation, a complex carbohydrate snack thirty minutes prior to going to sleep, and avoidance of excess alchohol, sugar, caffeine, and a lot of fluids before going to bed.
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