What time do you normally go to bed? A consistent bedtime has long been considered a strategy for getting enough sleep, but now science has determined that there's one bedtime hour that is the best for your heart health: 10 PM to 11 PM.
A study of 88,000 adults kept track of their activities by an accelerometer they wore, so the exact time they went to bed was recorded. The average age of the participants was 61, and in the following six years, 3,172 of them had cardiovascular events, such as heart attack, stroke, or heart failure. When researchers crunched the numbers, it turns out people who went to bed between 10 and 11 were the least likely to experience such an event. There was a 12% greater risk for those whose bedtime was between 11 and midnight, and a 25% higher risk for those who stayed up past midnight. Those who fell asleep earlier in the evening had a 24% increase in risk. Curiously, women were more affected by a bedtime later than 11, and men were more affected by going to bed before 10 PM. The effect was seen even when controlling for other lifestyle factors. Read more about this study at NBC. -via Fark