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University of Eastern Finland
Persons sleeping less than 6 hours or more than 10 hours
suffer from low-grade inflammation more often than persons sleeping 7-8
hours per night. This was observed in a University of Eastern Finland
study focusing on the health and lifestyle habits among middle-aged men.
"Earlier
studies have found a relation between reduced sleep and low-grade
inflammation," says Maria Luojus, MHSc, one of the study researchers.
Furthermore, low-grade inflammation occurs in overweight, depression and diabetes.
The
study is the first to analyse the association between sleep duration
and serum micronutrient concentrations in a large sample, and it found a
link between high serum copper concentration and long sleep duration.
Serum micronutrient concentrations are affected by many factors,
including an individual's general health and diet.
"Based on this study, however, it is impossible to say whether
sleeping long results in high serum copper concentrations or vice
versa," Luojus says.
It has been suggested that high serum copper concentration associates with pro-oxidative stress.
"Pro-oxidative
stress is found in many chronic diseases, such as coronary artery
disease. Nevertheless, when the study participants' cardiovascular
diseases were taken account for, our results remained unchanged. The
association between serum copper concentration and sleep duration
persisted independently of cardiovascular diseases," Luojus says.
In
addition to, the study participants' age, cumulative smoking history,
alcohol consumption, depressive symptoms, physical activity and
metabolic syndrome were taken into account in the data analysis.
The
study involved 2,682 men living in Eastern Finland, participating the
Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor (KIHD) study. The KIHD study
has been ongoing at the University of Eastern Finland in the Institute
of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition since 1984.
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