Be Alert, Excessive Sleep Can Increase Death Risk

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JAKARTA - If you are tired of your activities, it is not uncommon for someone to sleep in a day to rest the body. However, it is necessary to know that excessive sleep is not good for the health of the body.

Launching the Sleep Foundation page, excessive sleep is sleep that is more than nine hours a night, known as hypersomnia. This is characterized by sleepiness which continues to occur for a long time.

If done occasionally, excessive sleep will not be a problem. However, if done regularly, excessive sleep will be dangerous for the body and even lead to death.

Reporting from Healthline, excessive sleep can increase the C-reactive protein (CRP) which can trigger indications of inflammation in the body. In addition, CRP levels are also related to increasing the risk of heart attacks to causing death.

A meta-analytics shows that the risk of death from heart disease and stroke is associated with increasing during longer sleep. The same meta-analytics also found that the risk of death increases if you add 1 to 1.5 hours of sleep recommended every day.

In details of the analysis, it is explained that nine hours of sleep increases the risk of death by 14 percent. Sleep 10 hours increases the risk of death by 30 percent, and sleep 11 hours increases the risk of death by 47 percent.

Thus, you should sleep according to the recommended time, which is 7 to 8 hours every night. Limit sleep hours to these numbers so that your body remains healthy and fit.