Sleeping deadly heart failure

Sleeping pills taken by millions of people around world, 8 times increase in the risk of death in patients suffering from heart failure. That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from the Medical Center Yamate Medical Center.

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About a million Russians suffer from heart failure In which the heart can not pump the body needs amount of blood. The disease causes shortness of breath, fatigue and swelling of the feet, and one of the most common side effect is insomnia. To deal with it people often use hypnotics   medication.

However, Japanese scientists have found that establishing healthy sleep, these medications drastically worsen the health of patients with heart failure   about half the cases. Such patients often 8 times They die or are hospitalized for six months after the start of such drugs as compared with those patients who do not take hypnotics .

However, Japanese scientists have conducted only a very small studies concerning a total of 11 patients admitted for treatment in Yamate Medical Center from 2011 to 2013. And the results are necessary to confirmed by observation larger before doctors can state for patients with heart failure about the dangers of receiving hypnotics.

Furthermore, these studies remains for patients with preserved ejection fraction. These people because of damage to the heart muscle faced with heart failure, but the amount of blood ejected from the left atrium at every beat of their hearts remains normal. Amongst the total number of victims of the disease patients with preserved ejection fraction about half. (READ MORE)

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