Lack of Sleep affects women more than men

It is amazing how important sleep is for us all however a recent research done by University College London and the University of Warwick has found that the levels of inflammatory markers, which indicate heart disease, change significantly with the amount of sleep that women have, but doesn’t vary all that much in men. The study appears in the journal Sleep. Researcher Dr. Michelle Miller said that these findings added to the increasing evidence that the length that one sleeps affects overall health. These results “also are consistent with the idea that sleeping seven or eight hours per night appears to be optimal for health,” Dr. Miller said, and added that more work would be needed to find exactly why a lack of sleep could potentially have a greater effect on women. However, she said that different hormone levels in women could be the key.

The study was conducted with more than 4,600 London-based civil servants who were aged 35 to 55, 73% of which were men.