Why does an irregular sleep sleep exposing heart patients at risk

The research team found that even somewhat irregularly increased the risk of developing another clinical event within six months, according to a study published on August 21 in the magazine Jacc offers. The clinical event can be another visit to the emergency room, hospitalization, or even death.

“Going to bed and waking up at fixed times is important to public health,” said the lead author Brock Shevar, Professor Assistant Researcher in Health Sleep Laboratory at the Faculty of Nursing. “Our study indicates that the consistency of the timing of sleep may be especially important for adults with heart failure.”

The researchers registered 32 patients who were transferred to the hospital due to the acute suffering of the OHSU Hospital and the Helsburo Medical Center from September 2022 to October 2023. For one week after the hospital’s discharge, the participants used the sleeping diaries to record the time they were ashamed at night, and they woke up in the morning and the NAPS timing that they took a day.

Then the participants were classified as sleeping regularly or sleeping somewhat irregular, based on their sleep patterns.

The study found:

• After leaving the hospital, 21 participants suffered from a six -month bed event.
• From that group, 13 was classified as some somewhat irregularly uninteresting compared to eight classified as a regular sleep schedule.
• Statistically, irregular people had more than twice the risk of an event during a six -month period of time.

The danger of the clinical event for irregular sleep remains moderately even when calculating potential contributing factors such as sleep disorders and other basic medical conditions. The research team says that the study is one of the first to study the effect of sleeping regularity in the context of heart failure, and the results add to an increasing group of evidence that indicates the importance of maintaining a regular sleep schedule.

The authors concluded that “improving the regularity of sleep may be a low -cost therapeutic approach to alleviate negative events in adults with heart failure.”

Chevir said the results enhance the relationship between regular sleep and cardiovascular health.

“When we sleep and in a break, our blood pressure and our heart rate decreases compared to daytime levels,” she said. “But the contrast in the timing of sleep may disrupt the mechanisms involved in regulating the cardiovascular system. The irregular sleep may contribute to negative results, especially for people who are already affected by the failure of the heart.”

She said that the next step is to increase the research to a larger group of participants and know if improving the regularity of sleep reduces the risk of another clinical event.

In addition to Chevir, among the participating authors, Sherine Hayat, MPH, RN, Sophia Kogan, BSN, RN, Nathan Dieckmann, Ph.D. , Christopher Chien, MD, Quin Denfeld, Ph.d. Christopher Lee, PhD, RN, from Boston College.

The study was supported by the National Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood. National Institute for Child Health in UNICE Kennedy. The National Institute for Nursing Research, all the National Institutes of Health, T32HL083808, K12AR08421 and R01NR019054, respectively; The OHSU Nursing School. The content is only the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Informatics Institutes.