By Dr. Anuj Chandra, M.D., D.ABSM
There is new
evidence of the connection between insufficient sleep and stroke. I just
returned from the SLEEP conference in Boston, the 26th annual meeting of the
Associated Professional Sleep Societies, where the research was presented.
Sleep
researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that people who
routinely sleep only six hours a night have a risk of stroke four times greater
than people who got seven to eight hours of sleep every night.
