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🎧 Sleeping in on weekends could cut your risk of heart disease by up to 20%, new study shows Sleeping in on the weekends isn’t just an indulgence, it could also be beneficial to your heart health, suggests a new study out of China. Researchers at the National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases at Fuwai Hospital in Beijing found that sleep-deprived people who “caught up” on shut-eye by sleeping in on weekends reduced their risk of heart disease by up to 20%. Their preliminary work was scheduled for presentation Sunday at the European Society of Cardiology’s Congress 2024 in London. “Sufficient compensatory sleep is linked to a lower risk of heart disease,” study coauthor Yanjun Song said in a news release ahead of the meeting. “The association becomes even more pronounced among individuals who regularly experience inadequate sleep on weekdays.” Song’s team used the UK Biobank, a health research database, to analyze the sleep habits of nearly 91,000 people. One limit
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