Feb 22 2008
Day time dozing opens door for stroke
Feb 22: A recent study conducted by the US researchers shed light on to the link between day time dozing and its influence in promoting stroke in elderly people. Regular unintentional daytime dozing is considered as the early symptom of stroke in elderly people. The risk of stroke is two to four times higher among those who feel sleepy during day time as compared to those who doesn’t have any day time dozing tendency, as according to the study.
The expert team revealed this while addressing at the International Stroke Conference. The study included 2000 people and studied their sleeping patterns such as while watching TV, sitting and talking to someone, sitting quiet after a lunch without alcohol and stopping briefly in traffic while driving.
According to the findings of the research the risk of stroke over the next two years is 2.6 times greater among people who reported dozing as compared to those without day time dozing. Among those with significant dozing the risk is 4.5 times higher. The risk of heart attack or death from vascular disease is 1.6% higher for moderate dozers and 2.6% higher for significant dozers. These are significant numbers; the impact will be higher over a short period of time.
While commenting on this Dr Bernadette Boden-Albala said: “Given a wider perspective it is worth assessing patients for their day time sleeping habits. The moderate and significant dozing among the elderly people should have to be considered as the symptoms of further complication.”
Dr Heinrich Audebert, consultant stroke physician at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital, London opined that: “We strongly recommend the physicians to conduct sleep apnoea screening in patients who shows symptoms of sleeping break in the night. Other probable reasons are the earlier unidentified minor stroke of the brain and it also paves the way for the sleepiness during daytime.”
According to another statistics about 150,000 people in the UK are experiencing stroke every year.
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