Sleeping less than six hours interferes with normal heart function in women, according to UC San Francisco staff, The Telegraph writes.. With coronary heart disease, as well as a lack of sleep in a woman's body, inflammatory processes occur twice as often.

A new study found that the lack of adequate sleep leads to increased levels of inflammatory markers and exacerbation of various chronic diseases..

After studying the relationship between insufficient sleep and levels of markers that trigger inflammation in the body, observed in 700 elderly volunteers with heart disease, experts found that sleep that regularly lasts less than six hours leads to an increase in the level of markers of inflammation in the female body.. No such trend was observed in men.. As it turned out, the representatives of the weaker sex are 2.5 times more susceptible to inflammatory processes compared to the opposite sex..

This is due, scientists believe, to a decrease in the level of the hormone estrogen during menopause.. Men are protected from inflammation by high testosterone levels..

" We now have clear evidence that sleep deprivation plays a huge role in raising inflammatory markers.. Human health is often weakened precisely because of lack of sleep,"

Detailed results of the work of scientists are described in an article in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.

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