How can sleeping late at night be harmful to your heart? Doctors answer - Hindustan Times

Those individuals who sleep less than six hours a day, there is 20% increase in chance of heart problems and there is 82% increase in the risk of stroke associated with poor quality of sleep.

Increased stress, decreased motivation, decrease activeness in the daytime, unhealthy food consumption, Intoxicating substances such as smoking, tobacco, alcohol, and drug consumption, which over a period of time can lead to heart diseases and blocks.”.

It can be easily coped up, but if there's sleep deprivation for a period of months or years, this can lead to compromised heart health and early death and lot of diseases.”.

Highlighting that sleep is related to your biorhythms, which control your heart rate as well as your blood pressure, which is a very important part of sleep regulation, he said, “Sleep also regulates the hormones of the body and also in regulating the hormones of food cravings.

Heart disease has been seen in patients who are late sleepers and also who compromise on at least six to seven hours of uninterrupted sleep

Dr Chandrashekhar Kulkarni advised, “It is very essential that at some point of the day, at least having seven hours of uninterrupted sleep, which has to be compensated for and making sure that the biorhythm of the person is maintained as near as possible, it is an important tool to prevent significant heart attacks in people who are especially prone for heart disease

It means that basically, people who are prone to heart disease should make sure that they do not add the fuel to fire and cause more problems for themselves.”