Study: Heart Patients Improve With Better Sleep

By the end of the year a million more Americans will have spent time in the hospital for heart failure. That number has tripled in the last 30 years and is the number one reason people are admitted. Those patients all undergo a battery of tests to see how strong their hearts are but at one hospital, patients are automatically tested to see how well they sleep. With as many as three out of four heart failure patients suffering from sleep apnea, a new Ohio State study shows that treating them immediately can help them considerably.

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• heart
• heart failure
• sleep
• sleep apnea