Insomnia Linked to Increased Risk of Stroke, Study Finds
investigated the link between the symptoms of insomnia and the risk of stroke. The study included 31,126 people who had no history of stroke at the beginning of the study. Patients answered questions about how frequently they had trouble falling asleep, waking up during the night, waking up too early, and not being able to return to sleep. Researchers judged the severity of symptoms on a scale of 1 to 8 .
Researchers followed up with participants after nine years, during which participants experienced a total of 2,101 strokes. Researchers found that those who reported experiencing five to eight symptoms of insomnia had a 51% higher risk of stroke compared to those who reported no symptoms. The link between insomnia symptoms and stroke was stronger in participants under 50 years old who experienced five to eight symptoms, having nearly four times the risk of stroke compared to people without symptoms. But, people 50 or older with five to eight symptoms still had a large increased risk of stroke compared to people with no symptoms.
“This difference in risk between these two age groups may be explained by the higher occurrence of stroke at an older age,” study author Wendemi Sawadogo, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., said in a
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