Now, here’s one more shocking fact, based to an in depth research, getting too little sleep on a consistent basis may be as much to blame for triggering fatal heart attacks as smoking. Researchers report this with hard facts to support it. In fact, lead researcher Dr. Monique Verschuren, of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands, said: ‘The importance of sleep should now be mentioned as an additional way to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.’ If that’s not enough to alarm you, lack of sleep increases the risk of heart disease as much as smoking.
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