How tablets and phones before bed could lead to a stroke

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Insomniacs have a higher risk of suffered a stroke than those who sleep soundly, researchers have warned.

The link between insomnia and stroke was especially strong in young adults, who were up to eight times more likely to suffer a stroke if they had insomnia.

The research comes amid growing fears that strokes are becoming more common among young people.

That finding – based on an analysis of health records of more than 21,000 people with insomnia and 64,000 regular sleepers in Taiwan – doesn’t prove sleep disturbances cause strokes.

And even among young people with insomnia, total stroke risk remained low, the researchers said.

‘The article raises the question of, are we doctors taking chronic insomnia seriously?” Dr. Demetrius Lopes told Reuters Health.

‘It gives us ammunition to promote good sleep hygiene.’

Lopes, a neurosurgeon who specializes in stroke treatment at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, was not involved in the current study.

 He said the research draws attention to the problem of stroke in young adults.

Strokes cause more serious long-term disability in the U.S. than any other disease and are the third leading cause of death, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Nearly three-quarters of all strokes afflict people over the age of 65, and stroke risk more than doubles each decade after age 55.

However, some studies show that stroke incidence is rising among young adults.

For the current study, published in the journal Stroke, researchers tracked data from health insurance records, focusing on people with and without insomnia who initially had never had a stroke.

They found that over four years, 583 of the people with insomnia, or 2.7 percent, and 962 without insomnia, or 1.5 percent, were admitted to a hospital for stroke… see more

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