Women who try to make up for a ‘sleep debt’ on weekends have a higher risk of heart disease later in life, new study finds

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Women who try to make up for a ‘sleep debt’ may be at greater risk for heart disease later in life than those who do, according to preliminary research.

The study found that women over 60 who had been sleeping more on the weekends to play ‘catch up’ from a week’s worth of short nights were five percent more likely to show signs of heart disease.

Regardless of other risk factors like socioeconomic status and age, the more sleep deprived women were, the more likely they were to be obese and have high blood pressure, according to the presentation given at this year’s annual American Heart Association meeting.

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