Lack of sleep may catch cold easily
Posted on October 29, 2009
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According to Carnegie Mellon University, a new study, if you do not sleep for a while, you may be cold. The study found that less than 7 hours of sleep each night the people the possibility of cold sleep an average of 8 hours or 8 hours or more of the people’s almost 3 times.
For those who have difficulty falling asleep or waking up periodically people, this is more of a bad news. Time for those who are not able to sleep lying on their bed time, only 8% of the subjects likely to suffer from a cold night at 5.5 times the subjects of sleep.
”Although sleep and the relationship between the immune system, sufficient evidence that this is the first time there is evidence had shown that even a relatively small sleep disturbance can also affect human response to the influenza virus,” the study’s lead author, Carnegie Mellon University, Chair Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology, said Sheldon Cohen. “It offers people should adjust their schedules in order to obtain a full night of rest is another reason.”
A bad temper susceptible to cold
In the study, published in the January 12 issue of “in the scientific literature” on the study, participants in 153 healthy volunteers exposed to a cold viruses, and then in a hotel closed for 5 days of life, during which scientists monitor of their symptoms, such as sneezing, nasal congestion and throat pain. In these subjects, 54 had shown a cold.
In addition, their participation in the two weeks prior to the study, which 78 male and 75 female subjects received a day on their quality of sleep the day before the investigation.
The length of sleep, those who reported sleeping less than 7 hours of people likely to report symptoms of sleep eight hours per night or more 2.94 times that of people. Sleep efficiency – that is, a person to lie down to sleep and woke up the next morning between the percentage of true sleep time – less than 92% of the people there the possibility of flu are those scores were in the 98% or more of the people 5.5-fold. Interestingly, the “feel has been rest,” the subjective measure and the final cold symptoms, and there is no correlation.
Statistical analysis of control may cause interference to other factors, such as smoking and stress, while the subjects were studied after a screening prior to acceptance, if they have mental health problems, such as depression, then they were removed. This is a test in other areas of people’s everyday healthy sleep habits unique research.
”Study the relationship between sleep and immune function experiments often involve sleep deprivation or a sleep disorder subjects, these sleep disorders are often derived from other aspects of the health impact of mental illness,” Cohen explained. “This study indicated that a healthy person’s ordinary, real life, the role of sleeping habits.”
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