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Cut that lie-in short

07-Jun-2017

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Study looked at how waking and sleeping hours shift at the weekend.

For every extra hour a person’s schedule shifts, there is an 11 per cent increase cardiovascular disease.

This social jetlag is caused by social commitments conflicting with when our bodies want to sleep.

The studies were published in the Anaesthesia and Current Biology journals.

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Anaesthesia

Journal covering research on all aspects of general and regional anaesthesia.

Current Biology

Journal providing information from all areas of biology.

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