Do your patients get the recommended 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night? If they don’t, their risk for cardiovascular events might increase. Harvard Investigator Shady Abohashem explains why sleep is so important for our bodies and hearts.
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00:12 Impacts of sleep insufficiency on cardiovascular mortality and findings about the connection of poor sleep quantity and cardiovascular risks.
2:43 Optimal sleep – not just a question of duration.
3:23 Mechanisms behind the correlation between sleep quantity and cardiovascular health.
4:43 The brain-heart-axis: How stress affects our health and new findings about the Takotsubo syndrome.
7:25 Higher risk for women: Sexual hormones, mood disorders and sleep.
8:33 Insufficient sleep vs. sleeping too much – how much sleep is ideal?
11:57 Should doctors prescribe more sleep?
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